Hot temperatures this spring have created ideal conditions for sugarbeet crop pests, such as root maggots, that can cause plant damage. The sugarbeets that were planted late are especially vulnerable ...

Ever wondered what the Irish expression ‘acting the maggot' means? You might have seen this phrase online, on a t-shirt, or even heard an Irish person say it. Maybe you were left a little bit confused ...

In its larval stage, Lucilia sericata looks unassuming enough. Beige and millimeters long, a bottle-fly grub may lack good looks, but it contains a sophisticated set of tools for eating dead and dying ...

Habitat: the great outdoors of North America from Florida to Canada, mostly inside cancer-like galls on the stems of the goldenrod plant There are a few ways to resist death in the deep freeze ...