Maggots love to feed on decaying fruit. New research explains how they found this out and the implications for having texture be such a big deal.

This rare blow fly species has larvae that fit right in with the termites down to copying their odor.

Leiderman, who does our theme music - associate the texture of food with taste, and that includes fruit fly maggots ... of rotting fruit do these maggots like and dislike? First, Komarov ...

Cheese skipper flies, Piophila casei, lay their eggs in cracks that form in cheese, usually fiore sardo, the island’s salty pecorino. Maggots hatch ... of food might look like.

Two problems commonly associated with apple trees plague growers: apple scab and apple maggots. It is too late for remedial action at this time of year but what you do now can affect next ...

She launched GoTerra in a 280 sqm shed in Fyshwick with a workforce primarily of black soldier flies – or rather, their greedy, worm-like babies. “We receive the waste just like the tip does ... We ...

I just found two worms on the floor by Savoy’s food bowl,” the woman on the phone said, clearly upset. We’re used to that. I ...

The most widely studied maggot is the larva of the vinegar fly, Drosophila melanogaster ... they either move towards the odour source if they like it or away if they find the odour distasteful. Using ...

Nature is full of impostors, and many of them are found in the insect world. Certain species, such as the bee fly or the ant ...

You have no idea how good you look when a wine bottle needs opening and there is not a wine opener to be found. But fly fishing has been a challenge when it comes to finding the right knife.