If there are maggots in your compost bin, it may be due to too many greens or not frequently turning the pile. Get rid of ...

Use repellants on exposed skin if you must be outdoors. Oil of lemon eucalyptus, picaridin and higher concentrations of DEET seem to be most effective, says Gray. Natural repellants, such as essential ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

In one sense, it’s odd to associate any firefly with youth, for by the time we see them lighting up our nights, they are ...

The U.S. government is combating a potential invasion of flesh-eating New World screwworm maggots with a multimillion-dollar ...

By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United ...

The USDA expects a new screwworm fly factory to be up and running in southern Mexico by July 2026. It plans to open a fly ...