Researchers from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute and Texas A&M University recently gathered their ...

FlyBase, the world's only fruit fly database, is in the crosshairs of Trump's attack on Harvard. Here's why it could matter ...

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In the video game The Last of Us and its spin-off HBO series, humans fight to survive against cordyceps, a parasitic fungus ...

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The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) is an invasive species that was introduced to North America in 1998. In a very short ...

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

Detainees are telling their families about what it’s like to live in cells inside heavy-duty tents erected on an airstrip in ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico ...

Your first instinct when you spot a buzzing insect nearby is often to swat at it, but not every bug is a foe. Some are friends and worth a second look. Consider the hover fly, a tiny but mighty bee ...

USDA announces new Texas facility to breed sterile New World screwworm flies as part of an effort to combat the flesh-eating ...