A type of flesh-eating maggot is making a comeback — and it’s creeping toward the United States. The new world screwworm is a blowfly whose larvae burrow into animal wounds and gorge on living tissue.

I hate bugs inside my home. And while fruit flies are the least serious offender in my mind (bed bugs and roaches are much worse), some people can’t stand them. Instead of swatting at the air in a ...

Watch a carnivorous Venus flytrap growing and eating before your eyes in this time-lapse. A dormant flytrap was planted into a pot filled with soil mixture and moist wood fiber on the surface. We ...

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What has no brain, no nervous system, and not even nerves, yet acts as if it has reflexes? The answer is a Venus fly trap. This famous carnivorous plant captures insects and other small animals – and ...

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To trap its prey, the Venus flytrap sends rapid electrical impulses, which are generated in response to touch or stress. But the molecular identity of the touch sensor has remained unclear. Japanese ...

Unfortunately, fruit flies can often go undetected until they're a larger problem in your kitchen and other parts of your home. Known for their tiny brownish-colored bodies, these flies tend to hang ...

Recently, a woman slowed down a line at the post office, waving her phone at the clerk. ChatGPT told her there’s a “price match promise” on the USPS website. No such promise exists. But she trusted ...

WASHINGTON (WDCW) – The country’s first human case of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite already wreaking havoc on cattle and driving up beef prices, has been reported in Maryland, ...

The patient had traveled to Central America, where an outbreak of myiasis, an infection by screwworm larvae, has been ravaging livestock. By Alexa Robles-Gil In early August, a case of myiasis, an ...