To curb the spread of Lyme disease in the northeastern United States, scientists and public health experts for decades have ...

An innovative and low-cost project aims to bio-convert food scraps into fertilizer, animal feed and extractable oil using the ...

At a USDA facility in Kerrville, "pioneering" science has largely ended the threat of the New World screwworm fly.

Winter stonefly larvae hatch in winter and early spring ... Although they have wings, adult stoneflies rarely fly. The sight of bugs crawling around in mid-winter might feel wrong, but stoneflies are ...

This photo shows a common green bottle fly. (Photo courtesy of Okayama University)(Kyodo) OKAYAMA (Kyodo) -- Researchers in Japan have found that flies fed excessive amounts of caffeine generally ...

This adaptation improves the flies' ability to locate hosts for their larvae, increasing their chances of survival. "It's important to understand how the sensory systems of eavesdroppers evolve ...

This adaptation improves the flies’ ability to locate hosts for their larvae, increasing their chances of survival. “It's important to understand how the sensory systems of eavesdroppers ...

The discovery of dengue larvae at various locations during the winter season has worried health authorities in Rawalpindi. The district administration and health department have finalised a new ...

MANILA, Philippines — A Chinese military helicopter flew dangerously close to an aircraft of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) yesterday as the latter was on patrol over ...

"When we lifted a stone we found a termite mound with three fly larvae that we had never seen before," Vila says. "The water had probably flooded the deeper layers of the nest and the larvae had ...

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A new paper in Current Biology describes how the larvae of a blow fly has evolved to live, apparently unnoticed, inside the nests of harvester termites. Its main strategy, it seems, is the "termite ...