Mosquitoes and crane flies are often confused for one another because they look similar at first glance, and they live in ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture works to neutralize -- again -- the flesh-eating larva of the New World Screwworm fly.

During this time as larvae, crane flies are important for recycling and decomposition — they eat leaves, plants and small bits of organic material in the soil or water bodies where they live.

Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized ...

In Lithuania and Australia, hungry fly larvae are used to process food waste into useful protein.

The Texas Department of Agriculture is on alert as the threat of screwworm, a flesh-eating fly larva, looms closer to the U.S. border.

The USDA has revived a decades-old strategy involving sterile flies to combat the deadly New World screwworm. These parasites can kill a cow in just two weeks, and cases have already popped up in ...

People are being encouraged not to kill flies, wasps or bees that enter their homes this summer. The annual influx of winged insects into homes is a common occurrence when the weather warms up and ...

Stark warning not to kill flies coming into your house this week Flies are annoying but killing insects that come into your house in hot weather will leave you with a much bigger problem.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New World screwworms are a species of fly larvae that infest and feed off the flesh of warm-blooded animals.