Speaker Julie Zickafoose left conference attendees with ideas to bring conservation to their world of bluebirding.

An ongoing study of the cause of death of howler monkeys on Barro Colorado has identified the howler monkey bot fly Cuterebra baeri as the single most important factor. Very young monkeys are the ...

Mike told me something interesting: The “wasps” were, in fact, rhino bot flies from the family Gasterophilidae (meaning stomach-loving), and they’re Africa’s largest flies. The larvae live in the gut ...

mites and bot flies that anchor eggs beneath the skin of infant birds. Troubled nestlings found life by being placed in another nest box where development was within a few days. Her ...