Finding maggots in your compost pile might be your worst nightmare, but it's important to know why they're there -- and what you can do about it.

Use repellants on exposed skin if you must be outdoors. Oil of lemon eucalyptus, picaridin and higher concentrations of DEET ...

If the flying menaces hanging out around your houseplants and seedlings are getting on your last nerve, here’s how you get ...

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

Andrew Short was sitting on a bench in downtown Vancouver in June 2023 when a metallic green beetle hit him and fell to the ...

STORY: In a rustic Havana workshop, Yodermis Diaz Hernandez tends to his black soldier flies.The former Cuban doctor is raising the insects for their larvae, which can be used as fish feed.Black ...

Put maggot-infested items into a plastic bag and store it in your freezer for at least 1 hour to kill maggots using low ...

"Flies have an extremely sensitive sense of smell and are attracted to the scent of decaying food, but keeping drains clean ...

Boiling water will kill any flies or larvae hiding in your drain, but it also helps dislodge any grease sticking to your ...

They pollinate your food, clean your soil, and keep pests in check — all without a sound. These five insects may be tiny, but ...

Should the flies reach the states, the larvae could infest livestock, pets, wildlife and, possibly, even people.

A detection of the New World Screwworm closer to the United States will keep the ports closed to livestock from Mexico.