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

The U.S. government is combating a potential invasion of flesh-eating New World screwworm maggots, which threaten livestock, ...

Finding maggots in your compost pile might be your worst nightmare, but it's important to know why they're there -- and what you can do about it.

Larvae (maggots): The larvae of flies hatch from eggs as maggots. Maggots play a crucial role in decomposing organic matter, which makes it readily available for plants and other organisms.

A maggot farm that upcycles food waste is coming to California The proposed Jurupa Valley farm would use billions of flies and their larvae to turn trash into feed for livestock and fish farms.

The maggots are blow fly larvae. I would recommend waiting until they consume the corpse and then they will disappear, as will the odor. You will probably be seeing large black flies in the house ...

But one British entrepreneur in South Africa believes that maggots, the wriggling larvae of the common house fly (Musca Domestica), is a viable protein-rich alternative to make animal feed.

IN reply to Dr. Bonavia's note on the above subject in NATURE for November 13 (p. 29), I beg to inform him that the larvæ of the house-fly are often internally parasitic on the larvæ of Lepidoptera.

The larvae of most deer and horse fly species are aquatic. ... After the maggots hatch, ... Deer flies are a bit larger than house flies and have dark-colored markings on their wings.