If you’ve ever walked into your home to find tiny flies lazing around your fruit bowl or houseplants, you’re not alone. Gnats ...

University of California Riverside researchers are launching a preemptive strike against a parasitic, flesh-eating fly’s ...

Missouri — The U.S. saw the New World screwworm in 2016 and 17 and successfully pushed the insect back south out of the states. Now the fly is making its way back north through Mexico. The outbreak ...

When MIT neurobiologists tracked how more than 200 motor neurons in fruit flies each edited their RNA, they cataloged hundreds of target sites and widely varying editing rates. Scores of edits altered ...

Nov 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Thursday announced the opening of a sterile fly dispersal facility in Tampico, Mexico, in the fight against New World screwworm (NWS).

A type of flesh-eating maggot is making a comeback — and it’s creeping toward the United States. The new world screwworm is a blowfly whose larvae burrow into animal wounds and gorge on living tissue.