Clad in all kinds of ornate and beautiful colors, the butterfly is a winged insect that flies from flower to flower, consuming the rich, sugary nectar inside. There are nearly 20,000 species of ...

It’s pretty rare, but just like us mammals, some flies actually give live birth. One of them is a parasitic fly species Ormia ...

By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United ...

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

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

We're not certain how fruit flies appear in our homes, but we want them out as soon as possible. Here’s how to get rid of fruit flies with DIY traps.

Should the flies reach the states, the larvae could infest livestock, pets, wildlife and, possibly, even people.

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 U.S. government plans to release billions of sterilized flies over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating pest ...

The US government is planning to carry out a shocking plan in which they will take millions of sterile New World screwworm ...

The U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying a flesh-eating parasite has moved further north in ...

The Department of Agriculture is pursuing a disgusting—but effective—strategy to eliminate the larva of the New World ...