People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated, or stored in engineered ponds such as ...

Adults live only three to seven days and lack functioning mouth parts, so all their eating happens before they reach adulthood, when they act as scavengers that feed on decaying organic matter.

Black soldier fly larvae could help to create sustainable animal feed and solve the world’s food waste problem. Each year humans waste more than one billion tons of food, or a third of all food ...

What is Pi Day? Pi Day is observed on March 14 because the month and day format we use has the first three digits for the value of Pi (π), 3.14. It was officially designated by Congress in 2009 (yes, ...

Ready to give up backyard composting because it's too difficult? It may surprise you to learn that prolific (and kind-of-cute ...

Crawling along the world’s river bottoms, the larvae of the caddis fly suffer a perpetual housing crisis. To protect themselves from predators, they gather up sand grains and other sediment and paste ...

Nine Mile Run flowing under a bridge before it enters the Monongahela River. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has begun its annual Black Fly Suppression Program. Black ...

I have some coffee grounds that were not used, and these worms appeared in them. Are they a problem? Should I not use the grounds, and should I try to kill the worms? That's a common question about ...

Fruit fly larvae’s alluring and socially important odor turns out not to come from the flies at all, but from their gut microbes. Scent is a big deal to Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies. Both ...

Bird nests are home not only to the bird parents and their offspring but also to other inhabitants, such as insect larvae, which take advantage of the favorable climatic conditions and abundant supply ...