A 58-year-old woman in Greece appears to hold the record for growing a parasitic sheep bot fly in her nose the longest, ...

Doctors removed 10 larvae and a pupa from her nose, according to a case report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

If you’re a gardener and you’ve found composting difficult or frustrating, you’re not alone. LAist science reporter Jacob ...

Ready to give up backyard composting because it's too difficult? It may surprise you to learn that prolific (and kind-of-cute ...

Just in case you needed new material for your nightmares, here’s this real-life case report of a woman in Greece who literally sneezed out maggots. Doctors documented the spine-chilling sneeze this ...

To use this evidence, investigators typically must grow the larvae until adulthood in a laboratory setting and then identify ...

The state of Texas has just devised a unique system for dealing with maggots: “raining flies.” A biological control program is using sterile flies and fly eggs to fight flesh-eating maggots. The ...

The federal government is planning to breed millions of flies and dump them over Mexico and Texas via airplanes in an effort to combat a flesh-eating maggot. The pest being targeted is the ...

Across the UK, warm spring days can turn an ordinary wheelie bin into a seething mass of flies and larvae overnight. One ...