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 ...

That maggot flies would show up in high numbers in my orchard after several years of trapping shows what persistent and established pests they are. Nearby apple, hawthorn and other fruit trees ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...