The U.S. Department of Agriculture works to neutralize -- again -- the flesh-eating larva of the New World Screwworm fly.

In a new study published and featured in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, researchers have discovered that ...

A study published in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, offers the most detailed view to date of how this ...

Hundreds of millions of flies dropping from planes in the sky might sound like a horrible nightmare, but experts say such a ...

The U.S. government plans to release billions of sterilized flies over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating pest ...

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

Howler monkeys in Costa Rica are facing a growing threat from bot fly larvae infestations, and new research points to tourism and land use changes as key drivers. A study by the Awá Science and ...

Spring is harvest season when you're living off the land in the high Arctic. Here's how the author learned from Inupiat hunters.

Adult bot flies are hairy and look like bees, without bristles. The larvae, which are about one-third the size of a penny, were living in a pit 2- to 3- millimeters wide. They were removed Thursday.

Mike told me something interesting: The "wasps" were, in fact, rhino bot flies from the family Gasterophilidae (meaning stomach-loving), and they're Africa's largest flies. The larvae live in the gut ...

If somebody eats something with fly eggs on it, and if those eggs survive the stomach and the intestinal tract, they can actually hatch out as larvae. As you might imagine, if that happens, the larvae ...