Summer’s here and so are the stings. From nettles to ticks to jellyfish, here’s how to treat (and avoid) the season’s most painful bites.

Recent helicopter flights over the Potomac River are part of an ongoing effort to both better understand and more effectively control the black fly population, swarms of which have been a nuisance to ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture works to neutralize -- again -- the flesh-eating larva of the New World Screwworm fly.

A study published in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, offers the most detailed view to date of how this ...

The U.S. has shut its southern border to livestock imports again after a flesh-eating parasite was found further north in ...

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

The U.S. government plans to release billions of sterilized flies over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating pest ...

Learn more Horse flies (Tabinidae) are ever-present pests during the summer, with horse fly bites being a particular problem for horses, and riders, alike.

Texas is no stranger to the New World screwworm, but it’s been about 50 years since the fly wreaked havoc in the Lone Star state. The fly is most notorious for laying eggs in open wounds of living, ...

Larvae of the screwworm fly can infest livestock flesh The US is warning Mexico it must help stop the parasite from advancing Mexico has until Wednesday to respond to demands In a letter to the ...

Geese, Ptarmigan, Caribou, and Bot Fly Larva The author’s Inupiat Eskimo hunting partner, the late Danny Pikok, with a pair of willow ptarmigan taken near Point Lay, Alaska in the early 1990s amid ...