Nestled within a traveler’s fresh caper flowers from Italy were long, yellow larvae that caught the eye of agricultural specialists at the Detroit airport, officials said. When the traveler refused to ...

Feeding female fruit flies a diet low in the amino acid tyrosine improves their ability to endure food shortage, reduces their reproductive output, and causes them to live longer, RIKEN researchers ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents intercepted "rare and potentially destructive" fruit fly larvae from the Detroit Metro Airport that could have had a detrimental impact on agriculture if ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Detroit Metro Airport found live larvae of a rare fruit fly in a traveler's things earlier this year, officials said Thursday. They said the grubs ...

A “rare and potentially destructive” fruit fly larvae was seized from a traveler in the Detroit airport, customs officials said. Photo by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Nestled within a ...

Go ahead and consume them, but please don't move them even to your neighbors because if there was to be any larvae in that fruit you're actually moving, expanding the quarantine." No flies have ...

At first, the suggestion to try farming maggots spooked Mari Choumumba and other farmers in Nyangambe, a region in ...

Unlike the house fly, it is not known to spread disease. Their life cycle lasts just weeks, and they lay between 500 and 900 eggs. The larvae devour decaying organic items — from rotting fruit ...

Unlike the house fly, it is not known to spread disease. Their life cycle lasts just weeks, and they lay between 500 and 900 eggs. The larvae devour decaying organic items — from rotting fruit and ...

At first, the suggestion to try farming maggots spooked Mari Choumumba and other farmers in Nyangambe, a region in southeastern Zimbabwe where drought wiped out the staple crop of corn. After multiple ...