The tiny beetle could scarcely have picked a worse human to fly into. Amateur entomologist Andrew Short was sitting on a ...

In his two-line poem, Ogden Nash wrote that “God in his wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why.” One Sunday a fly was buzzing around our church. I’m sure I was not the only parishioner ...

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

Hundreds of millions of flies dropping from planes in the sky might sound like a horrible nightmare, but experts say such a ...

A parasitic fly known as the New World Screwworm has been located 400 miles from the U.S. border causing concern in the ...

Dealing with a fly infestation at home is annoying. Orange County had one that spanned almost 100 square miles.

Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of a roundworm used extensively in biological research, opening a new pathway ...

"Balloon boy" Falcon Heene was the focus of national attention in October 2009, after his family claimed he was adrift in a ...

The Department of Agriculture on Wednesday halted cattle shipments from Mexico to the United States over concerns of the New World screwworm parasite's rapid spread.

Flies have an astonishing ability to sense and analyze scents, often detecting food sources from miles away. Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann, an entomologist at Cornell University, says that human bodies ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

The new Ophiocordyceps species, found only in flies, are related to the pathogen featured in the video game and TV series ...