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 ...

Michigan is home to countless species of fish flies, also known as mayflies, and many are expected to swarm lakeside communities near Lake Erie, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River in the days to ...

The figures illustrate protein digestion in the digestive system of BSFL and the function of the nutrient AA transporter HiNATt. Normally, BSFL excrete excess AAs through HiNATt (A). In contrast, ...

A Buffalo startup is commercializing a biotechnology that leverages the life cycle of the common black soldier fly to create a protein-rich, sustainable feedstock for fish- and animal-rearing. The New ...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A bin full of black soldier fly larvae are eating away at food waste inside the Full Circle Bioconversion barn in Old Lycoming Township. For owner Aubrey Fornwalt, getting into ...

An innovative and low-cost project aims to bio-convert food scraps into fertilizer, animal feed and extractable oil using the Black Soldier Fly Rosannette Quesada Hidalgo Often people kill flies or at ...

How does a fly larva sneak into a termite nest? With a butt shaped like a termite’s head, obviously. An international team of researchers in Morocco has discovered blow fly larvae not just living but ...

ELK RIVER, Minn. — Midge flies have taken over the Elk River Wastewater Treatment Plant. “They’re in our vehicles, they’re in our equipment, they’re in our air handling system,” said Elk River Public ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

PUNTA BRAVA, Cuba — Former Cuban doctor Yodermis Diaz Hernandez makes more money these days raising black soldier flies — whose larvae can be used as fish feed — than he ever did practicing medicine.