The federal government is going to take millions of sterile flies and dump them on Texas in the hopes that they’ll kill off a ...

The move is part of the government's plans for protecting the U.S. from the New World screwworm fly, which could devastate ...

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

A large, seasonal fly with a particularly painful bite is out and about again for the summer in Massachusetts.

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

What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental ...

The screwworm fly factory in Mexico is due to be operational in a year, with the distribution centre planned for Texas.

In the 1940s and 50s, cowboys carried a stick to treat cattle infested with screwworms. The stick was used to scrape the ...

Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a ...

Researchers used deep metagenomic sequencing to trace zoonotic pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes from cow manure into ...