Kenneth Watson of Arkansas nearly went blind after a gnat flew into his eye. Aug. 3, 2010— -- When Kenneth Watson was 16, he thought nothing of the gnat that flew into his eye: "I don't think you ...

In a bloody battle during World War I, two wounded soldiers were stranded on the battlefield in France, hidden and overlooked under some brush. Suffering femur fractures and flesh wounds around their ...

The use of medicinal maggots, sometimes called maggot debridement therapy, was first widely reported during the time of Napoleon. His general surgeon reportedly used maggots as a technique of cleaning ...

Maggots can be gross and unsanitary. If your home has been infested with maggots, you will need to know how to remove them safely and effectively. The only way to eradicate a maggot infestation is to ...

I know it’s just a robot, with skin made of silicone and muscles powered by air pressure. But as its body moves with a perfectly smooth cascading contraction, my throat tightens and my stomach ...

When Diane Ullman's Entomology 1 class walked in the door Monday, they were not expecting to create art. And they were definitely not expecting to create that art with the help of squirming maggots.

A discovery by FIU researchers could help forensic investigators close the gap on estimating the time of a person's death.

In its larval stage, Lucilia sericata looks unassuming enough. Beige and millimeters long, a bottle-fly grub may lack good looks, but it contains a sophisticated set of tools for eating dead and dying ...

had nothing to lose lisa Baxter thought she had seen it all. The manager of Tufts wound care team, She spent years evaluating sores, incisions and infections in hospitalized patients. I'm not grossed ...

Learn how molecular rhythms inside maggots could help investigators refine the window for determining time of death.

The larva of the human botfly (though not the one Florida doctors found under a newlywed’s skin) in the third and final stage of development that it takes inside a mammal’s body, according to ...