The midge treatment at Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant uses a special bacteria that is only harmful to nuisance insects ...

After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing ...

Midges rise out of the Great Lakes each spring as water temperatures warm. Millions descended upon a Lake Michigan lighthouse this week.

Eutrophication causes algal blooms, which can rapidly generate hypoxic conditions by depleting oxygen in the water for aquatic organisms like midge larvae ... midges that are a type of fly, that have ...

Here’s why Torontonians are seeing more midges in the spring, what the insect is actually up to and what it means for our environment.

Researchers have found that besides sharks, bees and platypus, even fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields and navigate toward the negative electric potential using a small set of sensory ...

In August, the researchers published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology sharing their findings. The paper made a splash, something Wise hadn’t expected, and attracte ...

Exactly how midge orchids are attracting these tiny ... feeding exclusively on nectar and pollen. March fly larvae, which develop underground, are formidable predators. Equipped with venomous ...

Unlike larger Antarctic inhabitants, this tiny wingless fly doesn’t rely on fur ... Through observations over six years of rearing midge larvae, the researchers have revealed how this insect times its ...

When we lifted a stone we found a termite mound with three fly larvae that we had never seen before. The water had probably flooded the deeper layers of the nest and the larvae had emerged onto ...

Arkansas researchers are testing a product commonly used to treat ticks and fleas on pets to target fly and mosquito ... control mosquito larvae for five weeks and midge larvae for eight weeks.