Blowfly strike is estimated to cost the industry almost $324 million each year, with $227 million of this due to production ...

“Blowfly strike can occur rapidly – in as little as 36 hours after eggs are laid,” Nadis warns, highlighting the need for timely preventative action. The disease is thought to affect more ...

The team is "here to stay," no matter what, lead researcher Keith Bowers said, amid federal funding changes for scientific research.

Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...

And if so, how can you send them packing? ‘Well, most of them would prefer to be outside,’ says Adam Hart, professor of ...

Robin Giles ranches cattle, sheep and goats down in the Texas Hill Country on land that’s been in his family for over 130 years. Though he hasn’t seen a case of New World screwworm since 1972 ...

the faster they progress through the life cycle from egg to adult fly. For example, if you forget to take out the trash, and then go on vacation for a week, you could have fly larvae wiggling around ...

House flies, the most common flies, have an average lifespan of 20 to 30 days. Adult fruit flies live much longer, about 40 to 50 days. Blow flies, easy to identify by their shiny metallic copper ...

The NWS fly lays eggs and larvae in open wounds of warm-blooded animals. Daly says NWS’s function is similar (but different) to a maggot. Domestic blow flies lay their eggs on dead tissue. The ...

This life cycle spans all of two to four weeks, from egg-laying, to hatching into larva (maggots), and developing into adult flies. Dr. Judy and I never had a summer without dog owners bringing us ...