As summer season begins, millions of biting flies are waiting to welcome visitors to northern Michigan. How to keep them away ...

When a black fly carrying Onchocerca larvae bites a person, the larvae enter their skin through the bite wounds. Usually, a black fly will have to bite you many times for the infection to take ...

One of the most enjoyable benefits of gardening is spending time outdoors. Braving inclement weather, getting covered in mud ...

Newswatch 16's Mackenzie Aucker stopped by the Full Circle Bioconversion in Old Lycoming Township to see what the process ...

Drain flies are small insects ... within two days and turn into larvae. The larvae grow between 9 and 15 days, so this is the longest part of their lives. The water temperature determines how ...

When placed in water, the dunks release BTi spores ingested ... BTi specifically targets mosquito and black fly larvae, making it safe for use around fish, birds, and other non-target organisms.

DEP will be spraying brown water with a naturally occurring soil bacteria. Treatment doesn’t harm fish, people, or birds — just black fly larva and mosquitos. This is the program’s 40th year.

You may have seen Chapul Farms pitching their cricket bars on Shark Tank, but these days, they’re trying to transform an entirely different industry. In 2018, the Oregon-based business shifted ...

Jorge Alemán Braulio Bonilla and Gilberto Bolaños in the laboratory where they keep the Black Soldier Fly larvae eating food scraps, inside the green boxes. Jorge Alemán The females lay from ...

Utilisation of BSF larvae could help to stem the expansion of damaging palm oil production, researchers from UK-based consultancy Tunley Environmental, claim in a new study. Cultivation of palm for ...