The New World screwworm was eradicated from the state decades ago, but now officials are warning it may be poised to return.

But they need not have worried. Although it may leave a bad taste in the mouth, scientists have discovered that eating worms is good for you. They greatly reduce the symptoms of inflammatory and ...

Eating fruit with worms should not even result in any digestive issues. Eating "wormy" sweet cherries, which contain the white larvae of the cherry fruit fly (Rhagoletis cerasi), is generally ...

If I were to eat a worm – which would probably mean I was starving in a jungle – I would fry it until it was so crispy that I couldn’t identify it as a worm. Otherwise, even if I ate it ...

Eating fewer calories produces numerous health benefits in ... Fasting improved performance in a task that required worms to learn an association between food and the scent of a pungent chemical.

Federica Bertocchini, from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), removed a batch of wax worms, the larvae of the common insect Galleria mellonella (greater wax moth) from honeycombs in her ...

They lay their eggs, which hatch as little worms. Worms can live for up to 10 years. Worms eat their own weight in organic waste, soil and minerals and excrete their own weight in castings daily ...