Ten thousand maggots were seen feasting on a 16-inch pizza, demolishing the entire pie in just two hours — an impressive accomplishment for the black soldier fly larvae. The feeding frenzy inspired ...

If you’re one of those people who composts everything you can think of because you want to build up your garden soil, you might – like me this summer – learn to love the maggots of black soldier flies ...

Ever bite into a delicious-looking apple, only to be rewarded with a chunk of mealy pulp? Or take a swig of milk, and get something lumpy in your mouth? Yeah, yuck. Well, it turns humans have company ...

BOISE, Idaho — Cow manure. Fish guts. Black soldier fly maggots. It could soon be dinner, if you’re an Idaho rainbow trout. University of Idaho and Idaho State University scientists are working on a ...

New World screwworms are the flesh-eating, larval form of Cochliomyia hominivorax, a species of blow fly. - Michael Miller/Texas A&M AgriLife Hundreds of millions of flies dropping from planes in the ...

SALT LAKE CITY, May 5, 2014 – When University of Utah biologists set out cotton balls treated with a mild pesticide, wild finches in the Galapagos Islands used the cotton to help build their nests, ...

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 ...

Maggots could help tackle the looming crisis of antibacterial resistance, according to researchers from Swansea University, who found that certain molecules in the secretions of green bottle fly ...

A parasitic fly whose maggots can infest living livestock, birds, pets and humans, could threaten California soon. The New World Screwworm has rapidly spread northward from Panama since 2023 and ...

About 30 prisoners at a Michigan correctional facility are being treated for symptoms consistent with food poisoning after maggots and fly larvae were discovered in one of the meal serving lines, an ...

Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex ...