The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that it suspects that the the New World screwworm fly has arrived in south ...

A flesh-eating fly has been detected 25 miles from the Texas-Mexico border — the closest New World screwworm case to the U.S.

Deer keds rely on flight and vision to find a host, but everything changes once they land. After shedding their wings forever ...

In case you didn’t know this could happen, a woman in Greece sought medical help after she sneezed and maggots came out of her nose. Clinicians say this is the first documented case of a sheep bot fly ...

A woman sneezed out maggots after flies swarmed her face while she was working outdoors, and laid eggs in her deviated septum. A 58-year-old woman was working in a field last September on a Greek ...

Five Mexican fruit flies have been found within three miles of each other in La Mesa, prompting the California Department of Food and Agriculture on Tuesday to declare a 77-square-mile quarantine in ...

A mass of writhing maggots on a decomposing murder victim is not a sight for the squeamish, but for some, it is evidence. A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic ...

People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated or stored in engineered ponds such as manure lagoons. Now, researchers publishing in ACS’ Environmental Science & ...

You’ve probably seen a hoverfly. It’s a small, bee-like insect that hovers over your flowers in summer. Though they look like tiny bees or wasps, they don’t sting. They’re actually some of the most ...

Extreme environments — on Earth and beyond — limit human habitation due to high levels of contaminants in the soil, making it difficult for food production. While they may sound like pests, black ...