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Black fly season is upon us, but that doesn't mean these small, biting pests need to be a buzzkill to your outdoor adventures.

The last frost date for Indiana will soon pass, bringing dreams of bountiful vegetable gardens to Hoosier green thumbs. With those dreams come schemes for enriching soils and a commitment to compost ...

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 ...

Particularly numerous in the spring and early summer, black flies — jokingly referred to as the “Maine State Bird” — persist into the fall.

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 ...

Inexpensive to raise and insatiably hungry for trash, black soldier fly larvae are already on the menu for livestock, pets and, maybe soon, people Black soldier fly larvae grow in a high-tech facility ...

Raised in vertical farms and stuffed with fruit waste, fly larvae have been turned into animal feed, as a new Costa Rican venture in sustainability is demonstrating. The Central American nation, one ...

It’s not just your imagination — the black flies are really biting this year. Lake Placid and surrounding areas are reporting an “unusually abundant” black fly population in 2023, despite the ...

People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated or stored in engineered ponds such as manure lagoons. Now, researchers publishing in ACS’ Environmental Science & ...

Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection will use a natural agent to kill black fly larvae on the Lehigh River starting Tuesday. That means "death from above" for the flies, but other ...

LAST year, Setia SPICE Con­vention Centre generated over 8.4 metric tonnes of food waste from 57 banquet events.