So far, four phorid species have been introduced in Texas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Ants Turn Into Zombies | Impact Lab] Reference

Researchers began introducing phorid species in Texas in 1999.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Ants Turn Into Zombies | Impact Lab] Reference

Determining whether the phorid flies will work in Texas will take time, perhaps as long as a decade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Ants Turn Into Zombies | Impact Lab] Reference

The tool is the tiny phorid fly, native to a region of South America where the fire ants in Texas originated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Ants Turn Into Zombies | Impact Lab] Reference

Invertebrate stocks that colonized Ascension underwent a variety of evolutionary changes including phyletic evolution leading to endemic status, adaptation to subterranean life (Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones, Collembola, and Psocoptera), character release (phorid Diptera), and probably splitting of lineages (speciation) within the island (Isopoda, Collembola, and gryllid Orthoptera).    From Wordnik.com.  [Ascension scrub and grasslands] Reference

So far, four phorid species have been introduced in Texas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skippy's List] Reference

He wasn't sure if these were phorid or a different species.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

Q: We believe we have phorid flies that have infested our home.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

Four phorid species have been introduced in the state since 1999.    From Wordnik.com.  [ABC News: ABCNews] Reference

When a phorid fly lands on a fire ant, it deposits eggs in the ant's chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

The sample letter A contained one fly, very squashed, but I believe it may have been a phorid fly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

Scientists in Texas have introduced four kinds of phorid flies from South America to fight fire ants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Jones] Reference

The tool is the tiny phorid fly, native to a region of South America where the fire ants in Texasoriginated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skippy's List] Reference

If phorid flies can be introduced to these areas, they may help take the sting out of fire ant infestations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

Researchers have learned that fire ants in their home region are kept under control by as many as 23 phorid species.    From Wordnik.com.  [ABC News: ABCNews] Reference

Inspection report excerpt: At one bar, inspectors found phorid flies, sometimes called coffin flies, in a bottle of cognac.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPORTSbyBROOKS] Reference

One a phorid female uses her hypodermic-needle-like ovipositor to inject her eggs into the ant's body cavity, it's all over.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

For a scary costume this year, why not grab a friend and go as a naturally creepy duo: the headless fire ant and the phorid fly?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

By understanding what makes phorid flies tick, scientists may be able to figure out how to attract them to areas-say, where fire ants thrive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

Friday Parasite: Heads will Roll ant-decapitating phorid flies and how they might help control the fire ants that are invading the American South.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Made Cool] Reference

Hunting Hidden Dimensions: Black holes, giant and tiny, may reveal new realms of space A phorid fly hovers above a fire ant before laying an egg in the ant's thorax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

As parasitic larvae, phorid flies eat the brains of ants while turning them into living zombies for a bit before decapitating the unfortunate insects and moving onward.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Sounds like the X-Files plot that started right around the end of season 5 2 minutes ago, -0 / +1This is like pest control vaporware - I've been hearing about phorid flies and how they're supposed to be death on Imported Fire Ants for 5 years now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Recently, Texas scientists let loose a new species of fly in Texas, which will ideally work in concert with the existing phorid species to kill a greater number the fire ants. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

12 minutes ago, -0 / +3 "Besides the phorid flies, several labs are working to develop fire ant-fighting fungi and viruses-perhaps to be delivered via phorid fly eggs.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Consider the case of fire ants and phorid flies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

19 hr 26 min ago, -0 / +6FTA - "To control a fire ant invasion in the southern U.S., scientists have been releasing phorid flies into ant-infested habitats for more than a decade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference