The smells emitted at the various stages of decay attract different species of necrophagous insects, which arrive at the body to feed on it or to lay their eggs. The first to appear are usually flies.

On Monday, a Bureau of Prisons spokesman said inmates weren’t served black beans or baked potatoes on Feb. 16, and called claims of maggot-infested food “inaccurate.” The Metropolitan ...

Insects come in handy in situations where an ordinary pathologist cannot judge the time of death after days. Forensic entomologists use maggots to get the accurate time and where the crime took place.

(Gabriella Demczuk for WSJ) The victims of mischief at a convention-related breakfast this week can rest easy—the insects discovered during their meal Wednesday probably weren't maggots after ...

Could you recommend a specific insecticide for the coddling moth and apple maggot insects that you mentioned during your recent webinar? Spinosad was mentioned, as I recall. Also, is there a ...

Mexico made a first shipment of sterile parasitic flies to Uruguay to help combat the cattle “screw worm” or Cochliomyia hominivorax, an insect whose larvae or maggots eat living tissue ...

Cardiff Council has published images of the filthy conditions at the former Stag Coffee site in Cathays which has now closed ...

The owners of Stag Coffee on Crwys Road in Cathays have since been prosecuted after an inspection found live maggots, a flies and dirty equipment at the premises. The inspection - by Cardiff ...