Black soldier fly larvae can convert Canada goose feces into protein and fertilizer, transforming an urban nuisance into an ...

In this video, watch a time lapse of carrot growth that faced challenges due to fungus gnat larvae. The quality may be lower ...

The European blister beetle lays thousands of eggs in the spring. When they hatch, the bright-orange larvae shimmy up flower stems and sit in clumps, waiting for passing solitary bees to latch on to ...

Shane Turton and Charli Whitaker, from South Australia's Riverland, have started a side hustle farming black soldier fly larvae in their backyard. The small operation is reducing food waste from local ...

A mass of writhing maggots on a decomposing murder victim is not a sight for the squeamish, but for some, it is evidence. A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic ...

People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated or stored in engineered ponds such as manure lagoons. Now, researchers publishing in ACS’ Environmental Science & ...

At a time when climate change, food waste and rural inequality are converging into a single, complex crisis, Thailand's agricultural debate can no longer be confined to yields, prices or exports alone ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

The ability of some animals to dynamically change color to match the brightness of their surroundings is one of nature's great survival tools, allowing flatfish to blend into sandy seabeds, frogs to ...

Not all barnacles just sit on rocks and ships. Some invade crabs, growing like a parasitic root system that hijacks their bodies. A mysterious group called y-larvae has baffled scientists for over a ...