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

Inspect the soil of any pots where plants have collapsed. Keep an eye out for white grubs with brown heads, these are the root-destroying larvae.

The larvae eat the roots of many kinds of plants, especially grasses, vegetables, ornamental (decorative) shrubs, and tree seedlings. They will also eat rotting bits of plants they find in the soil.

The pest then overwinters as mature larvae or pre-pupae in fields that were planted with soybean the previous growing season, with adults emerging from the soil in early June to repeat the life cycle.

As extreme weather and human activity degrade the world's arable land, scientists and developers are looking at new and largely unproven methods to save soil for agriculture.

A Texas undergrad is investigating how to grow vegetables on Mars — and has cultivated test samples of English peas in simulated Martian soil, with fertilizer from fly larvae.

Nasal botfly larvae are the stuff of nightmares. Good thing they're quite common and practically harmless in big game species.

Survival of Diaprepes root weevil Diaprepes abbreviatus (L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) larvae was assessed in flooded marl soil and a flooded nursery potting medium with green buttonwood (Conocarpus ...

As extreme weather and human activity degrade the world's arable land, scientists and developers are looking at new and largely unproven methods to save soil for agriculture.

In Malaysia, Nutrition Technologies produces "soil conditioner" from frass - the waste and skin of Black Soldier Fly larvae.

One company is injecting liquid clay into California desert to trap moisture and help fruit to grow, while another in Malaysia boosts soil with droppings from fly larvae.