For many people, having a fly swoop into your eye is an inconsequential nuisance. But for a 10-year-old boy in Turkey, this left a litter of maggots to grow under his lid. The boy, who lives in Tatvan ...

On Wednesday, doctors in France reported a rare case of tiny sheep bot fly larvae—aka maggots—infesting the outer surface of a man’s eyeball. The small, spiky larvae were seen slithering around the ...

A 53-year-old man went to a French emergency room complaining of a persistently itchy eye. He told his medical team that earlier that day while gardening, he had “felt something enter his right eye.” ...

Look in the mirror. Look closer. Is that pinkeye, or is something writhing around in there? Parasites have inspired some of the scariest cinematic monsters for a reason. There is tremendous shock ...

Gardening is a spiritual experience where many people find peace and comfort in the turning of the soil and growing of plants. Or, it is until you find something truly horrid hiding under the dirt, ...

Yamni is a professor at Swansea University, leading the Swansea University Maggot Research Group, and the Love a Maggot public engagement campaign. She is also currently a research supervisor for a ...

The state of Texas has just devised a unique system for dealing with maggots: “raining flies.” A biological control program is using sterile flies and fly eggs to fight flesh-eating maggots. The ...

A passenger on a maggot-infested Delta flight recounted the moment he set his eyes on a woman who was hit by the disgusting stowaways. “She was freaking out,” Philip Schotte, who was aboard the ...