1.  And the more partners a female fly consorts with, the sooner will her tiny wings and heart cease to beat.

2.  Female flies have been photographed hovering in front of ants before striking.

3.  Female flies, for example, are attracted by the odor of an animal carcass, in which they then lay eggs.

4.  In large, plastic tubs with sides too slick for an ant to climb out, female flies are allowed to inject eggs in captive ants.

5.  The female flies attack an ant by injecting eggs behind its head between gaps in the armor.

6.  The sterilized female fly laid her sterilized eggs and died.

7.  A female fly bites a human and unwittingly plants the parasites.

8.  Blanka Rogina, a co-author of the study, said female flies with the mutated genes were able to reproduce throughout life.

9.  Female flies lay their eggs inside fruit, and the larvae then feed on it.

10.  Knipling and colleague R.C. Bushland used radiation to sterilize male screwworm flies, which then were released to mate with female flies in the wild.