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 ...

The U.S. government is combating a potential invasion of flesh-eating New World screwworm maggots with a multimillion-dollar plan Getty The U.S. government is combating a potential invasion of ...

A bag of cherries full of a damaging pest's larvae was discovered at Detroit Metro Airport last month. The traveler from Romania was headed to a major cherry-producing area of Wisconsin. The European ...

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 ...

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 ...