Lab-reared maggots may save Darwin's famous finches
Thursday, August 4, 2016 - 21:31
in Biology & Nature
Researchers reveal how they used chicken blood to rear larvae of the fly Philornis downsi, an invasive species that parasitizes birds in the Galapagos Islands. The new method may be the first to effectively rear an avian blood-feeding fly from egg to adult in the absence of its host.