All flies go through a complete metamorphosis with four stages—egg, larva, pupa, and adult—but the time it takes a fly species to complete its life cycle varies.

Former Cuban doctor Yodermis Diaz Hernandez makes more money these days raising black soldier flies - whose larvae can be ...

The pest spawns flesh-eating larvae that could devastate the American beef industry, decimate wildlife and even kill household pets.

Phorid flies, a diverse group of parasitoids, have emerged as promising agents for the biological control of invasive ant species. These specialised dipterans locate their ant hosts using a ...

The US plans to begin breeding billions of flies to fight a pest. Here is how it will work It's part of plans for protecting the U.S. from the New World screwworm fly, which spawns flesh-eating ...

The USDA plans to drop sterile flies over Texas and Mexico to stop the screwworm, a parasite that threatens cattle, wildlife, and pets.

The New World Screwworm is creeping north, threatening cattle in Mexico and the US. Fighting flies with flies has worked ...

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. “It’s an exceptionally good technology ...

In Lithuania and Australia, hungry fly larvae are used to process food waste into useful protein.

The pest spawns flesh-eating larvae that could devastate the American beef industry, decimate wildlife and even kill household pets.