ON September 19, 1882, I was waiting for a train at Laqueville, in the Puy-de-Dome district of France, when I noticed a very large worm in the meadow, moving very rapidly from side to side. I ...

Screwworm parasites primarily infect livestock, but human cases have risen in Central America after the pests escaped ...

Nematodes tiny yet mighty form wriggling towers to survive and travel as a team. Long thought to exist only in labs, ...

Today's Bug of the Week raises the “ick” factor to a higher level. Looking like something out of a sci-fi movie, Vivivanne ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, cowboys carried a stick to treat cattle infested with screwworms. The stick was used to scrape the ...

The facility will breed millions of sterile New World screwworm flies at Moore Air Base, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins ...

Texas officials ramp up efforts against the New World screwworm, launching a response team to safeguard animals and ...

Scientists have observed that under intense environmental pressure, nematode worms assemble into towering collective structures to disperse by hitching rides on passing insects. This phenomenon, ...

On top of the freakiness of them, Penn State states how the worm produces a neurotoxin known as tetrodotoxin. Tetrodotoxin can irritate the skin of humans who come into contact with them, and might ...

Worm tower (C. sp. 8) attaching to the passing fly and traveling on the vector until it reaches the next substrate and detaches. CREDIT: Perez et al. (2025) Current Biology.

Insect-based feed offers a sustainable solution to reduce environmental impact and combat antimicrobial resistance in ...