Maggots are a common sight in compost piles and bins, but what do they do? What kind of maggots should you expect to find in your compost bin? How can you get rid of maggots if they become a problem?

The natural range of the New World screwworm fly extends from the southern states of the USA through Central America and the ...

Hundreds of volunteers have joined a "Frog Patrol" initiative in a forest near the Polish capital of Warsaw to help ...

A one-year-old child died after they were left alone for hours with their five siblings with no food—resorting to eating ants ...

An insidious pest has been infecting cattle just over the border, in Mexico. "Tick riders,” a 120-year-old group of mounted ...

A flesh-eating parastic fly is inching back ever-closer to the United States border as funding for surveillance of the worm ...

A flesh-eating parasitic fly has spread north through Mexico to within a few hundred miles of the U.S. southern border. The ...

The paleo diet popularized the image of a meat-based caveman-style diet, but that image is far from the archaeological truth. According to scientific research about what hominins and early humans ate, ...

Researchers in California are preparing for the possible return of a parasitic flesh-eating fly which once decimated livestock. The New World screwworm is the larval (or maggot) stage of a blowfly ...

Health officials are warning of a parasitic fly whose larvae feed on living tissue and can infest humans. The larvae feed on healthy tissue, according to health experts. New World Screwworm was ...