News Headline
Biologists try to save Darwin finches with pesticides
Source
United Press International (UPI)
Publication Date
2014-05-06
ISABELA ISLAND, Ecuador, May 5 (UPI) -- Scientists aren't exactly sure when the nest fly Philornis downsi first showed up on the Galapagos Islands, but their population began exploding in the 1990s -- which was and still is bad news for island birds, whose offspring are highly susceptible to the fly's larvae, blood-sucking parasitic maggots.