The U.S. government is combating a potential invasion of flesh-eating New World screwworm maggots, which threaten livestock, ...

The United States plans to bring back a somewhat shocking, but very effective, campaign to fight a flesh-eating parasitic fly that's been sighted in Mexico. The plan: Breed millions of ...

Of all the pests of apples, maggots are the most discouraging. They eat tiny trails through the fruits. Bacteria follow, turning those trails brown and eventually, mushy.

Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized ...

Spotting common apple tree pests before they wreak havoc on your fruit trees is critical. Get expert tips and insight for ...

The flies will be blasted with radiation before they are released into the skies of Texas and Mexico to combat the screwworm outbreak ...

It turns out, a maggot's preference for rotting fruit has as much to do with texture as taste. Researchers are looking into figuring out why and what neurons are responsible.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to drop millions of flies over Texas and Mexico, in an effort to ...

Maggots love to feed on decaying fruit. New research explains how they found this out and the implications for having texture be such a big deal. Ever bite into a luscious-looking apple only to be ...

The U.S. has blocked imports of live cattle, horses, and bison through southern border ports following the resurgence in Mexico of the New World Screwworm, a parasitic fly that infects animals and ...

Take two maggots and call me in the morning. Diana Dupuy was an otherwise healthy woman who had bunion surgery. When her cast came off, she found that she had a wound that wasn’t healing very ...