Ten thousand maggots were seen feasting on a 16-inch pizza, demolishing the entire pie in just two hours — an impressive accomplishment for the black soldier fly larvae. The feeding frenzy inspired ...

Ever bite into a delicious-looking apple, only to be rewarded with a chunk of mealy pulp? Or take a swig of milk, and get something lumpy in your mouth? Yeah, yuck. Well, it turns humans have company ...

If you’re one of those people who composts everything you can think of because you want to build up your garden soil, you might – like me this summer – learn to love the maggots of black soldier flies ...

Scientists trying to understand how cancer cells invade healthy tissue have used the fruit fly's metamorphosis from maggot to flying insect as a guide to identify a key molecular signal that may be ...

Ever bite into a luscious-looking apple only to be rewarded with, ugh, a chunk of mealy pulp? Turns out that other creatures - including B. J. Leiderman, who does our theme music - associate the ...

Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex ...

The U.S. has blocked imports of live cattle, horses, and bison through southern border ports following the resurgence in Mexico of the New World Screwworm, a parasitic fly that infects animals and ...

A parasitic fly whose maggots can infest living livestock, birds, pets and humans, could threaten California soon. The New World Screwworm has rapidly spread northward from Panama since 2023 and ...

It turns out, a maggot's preference for rotting fruit has as much to do with texture as taste. Researchers are looking into figuring out why and... Not too hard, not too soft, rotting fruit is just ...