The oldest book of zoology was published on clay tablets more than 3,600 years ago, and reported the names of 396 types of wild animals known at the time. Ten of them were different kinds of fly.

Flies and maggots can be a real problem in food waste bins during summer, but a cleaning expert says this 80p natural maggot ...

New research highlights the prevalence of maggots as an easily obtained, nutrient-rich supplement of ancient hominin diets.

How much would we have to pay you to eat a maggot? A lot, right? But soon you might be the one shelling out good money to down insects for dinner. The international investment bank Barclays is bullish ...

Lobsters are not pretty. Dip these unsightly creatures into warm butter, and they instantly become a different matter to most of us. Why, then, do we gag at the thought of eating insects? One ...

Maggot-infested meat likely provided Neanderthals and even some modern-day humans with a rich source of fat and nitrogen. Reading time 3 minutes Modern humanity’s most famous cousins, the Neanderthals ...

For years, maggots have been a powerful tool in medicine, quietly excelling in the treatment of chronic wounds. But despite the clinical evidence supporting their efficacy, maggots remain an underused ...