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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 flies and drop them from the sky.
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 ...
They pollinate your food, clean your soil, and keep pests in check — all without a sound. These five insects may be tiny, but ...
A detection of the New World Screwworm closer to the United States will keep the ports closed to livestock from Mexico.
It’s pretty rare, but just like us mammals, some flies actually give live birth. One of them is a parasitic fly species Ormia ochracea ( O. ochracea ). A new study published this week in the Annals of ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture works to neutralize -- again -- the flesh-eating larva of the New World Screwworm fly.
The US government is planning to carry out a shocking plan in which they will take millions of sterile New World screwworm ...
In a new study published and featured in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, researchers have discovered that ...