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.

Starting with apple maggots, Crumbley says, "Apple fly maggots infest fruit when adult female flies lay their eggs under the ...

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

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

Not too hard, not too soft, rotting fruit is just right - for fruit fly maggots It turns out, a maggot's preference for rotting fruit has as much to do with texture as taste.

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

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 ...

Maggots are the larval form of the Diptera species—in other words, baby flies. It’s not all that uncommon for maggots to infest and grow in poorly healing human tissue—it’s called myiasis.