In a recent Reddit AMA promoting her giant snake movie, Beware Boiúna (see below), Jessica Rothe revealed the working title ...

A woman in Greece became concerned when she started sneezing worms. Doctors concluded that it was a case of Oestrus ovis, as ...

Cattle grazing on a ranch in Mexico. Representative image; the animals are not known to be affected by New World screwworm. Photo by Brunxs via Pexels. The word “maggot” usually evokes decay. Many ...

A Papillion wildlife photographer's photo of a rabbit with botfly larvae raised questions online. Here's what an expert says about potential impact on pets. Seahawks take step toward major offensive ...

An estimated six million species of insect—maybe even more—call Earth home. Yet for some reason, none of them are found in the ocean. Scientists have come up with a few possible explanations, and a ...

This story was produced as part of the USC Center for Health Journalism’s California Health Equity Fellowship. Drain fly larvae appear to be the worm-like creatures allegedly contaminating water ...

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Using maggots to clean wounds sounds like the kind of survival trick you’d only need after crashing on a deserted island. Yet the FDA has just approved something even stranger: the Australian sheep ...

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In case you didn’t know this could happen, a woman in Greece sought medical help after she sneezed and maggots came out of her nose. Clinicians say this is the first documented case of a sheep bot fly ...

An odd little insect is the botfly. It irritates cattle and has no bristles. Odder still is a nameless fly, distant cousin to the housefly, whose larvae live by crawling into other insects, such as ...