Black soldier fly larvae show promise for safe organic waste removal

People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated, or stored in engineered ponds such as ...
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Composting can be wildly frustrating. Maggots to the rescue

Ready to give up backyard composting because it's too difficult? It may surprise you to learn that prolific (and kind-of-cute ...
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Commissioner warns of flesh-eating screwworms potentially coming to Texas

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The Texas Department of Agriculture is on alert as the threat of screwworm, a flesh-eating fly larva, looms closer to the U.S. border. Commissioner Sid Miller explained ...
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From Raining Flies to Baking Soda: How to Effectively Kill Maggots

The state of Texas has just devised a unique system for dealing with maggots: “raining flies.” A biological control program is using sterile flies and fly eggs to fight flesh-eating maggots. The ...
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Maggots associate the texture of a food with how tasty it is, research shows

MARTIN: Ever bite into a yummy-looking apple only to be rewarded with a chunk of nasty, mealy pulp? MARTÍNEZ: Oh, my God. If I expect crisp and instead get squish, it's a bad, bad deal (laughter).