USDA releases billions of sterile flies from planes to fight deadly flesh-eating maggots threatening livestock.

The Department of Agriculture is pursuing a disgusting—but effective—strategy to eliminate the larva of the New World ...

This rug was covered in thick grease and crawling with maggots, presenting one of the worst cleaning challenges tackled. Watch the full transformation from foul to fresh!

Share or comment on this article: Astonishing before and after of one of 'Britain's filthiest flats' where six-year-old girl and her mother lived surrounded by maggots, mould and rubbish ...

A city has hatched a grim scheme as huge piles of rubbish at landfill sites become unmanageable. A horde of maggots have chomped through close to 90 tonnes of food scraps since January in Sydney ...

Image: Nick Langley / City of Sydney Over 7.3 million tonnes of food is wasted in Australia every year, which averages to roughly 300 kgs of food per person per year, according to Clean Up Australia.

There are maggots in the kitchen, and mould and damp throughout the house, including the children's bedrooms. The windows are stuffed with bin bags as they do not close properly.

Due to an infestation of screwworms, a type of flesh-eating maggots, all imports of cattle and bison from Mexico have been suspended. The pest was found on the border of Guatemala and has traveled ...

But maggot farming reduces production costs by about 40 percent, he said. The maggots are offspring of the black soldier fly, which originates in tropical South America.

She can harvest up to 15 kilograms (about 33 pounds) of maggots in 21 days, turning out 375 kilograms (826.7 pounds) of chicken feed after mixing it with drought-tolerant crops such as millets ...