Investigating, I discovered a grisly and fascinating case of biological control in my own garden. A large hornworm caterpillar was under attack by a Tachinid fly. This particular species, which looks ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 92, No. 4 (Dec., 2009), pp. 598-600 (3 pages) The parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea uses the calling song of its host Gryllus spp. to locate an area inhabited by potential ...

Specialisms: Identification of tachinid flies, biodiversity informatics, taxonomy & biological recording. Manager of the UK Species Inventory, a database of the names of all British wildlife and used ...