Maggots are the larvae stage of the housefly. ©iStock.com/Tsekhmister The state of Texas has just devised a unique system for dealing with maggots: "raining flies ...

A 58-year-old woman in Greece appears to hold the record for growing a parasitic sheep bot fly in her nose the longest, almost creating a snot rocket that could literally fly. Usually, when the sheep ...

Flies and maggots in bins are a familiar and deeply unpleasant sight across the UK, particularly during the warmer months, and it's fair to say it's something nobody wants to encounter. In Britain, ...

Phorid flies constitute a diverse assemblage of small dipterans, several species of which have evolved as specialised parasitoids of ant hosts. These flies locate and oviposit on or within individual ...