The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

The United States is preparing to carry out a bold and surprising plan to fight a deadly threat — flesh-eating maggots. Flesh-Eating Maggots Threaten Livestock and Wildlife These maggots are the ...

The Department of Agriculture is pursuing a disgusting—but effective—strategy to eliminate the larva of the New World ...

The U.S. government plans to release billions of sterilized flies over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating pest ...

According to experts from Texas A&M, the New World screwworm is a tropical, parasitic fly native to the Western Hemisphere.

Historically, the screwworm was a big problem in several areas of the southern U.S. prior to its eradication in the 1960s.

The facility will breed millions of sterile New World screwworm flies at Moore Air Base, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins ...

Biting midges will also bite pets and are known by names such as “no-see-ums” or “punkies.” Black flies lay eggs in flowing ...

After carefully studying the life cycle, USDA scientists figured out a way to sterilize male fly larvae with doses of gamma radiation without hurting the males' abilities to find mates. USDA ...

The New World screwworm parasite has been detected in Mexico, prompting the U.S. Agriculture Department to launch an $8.5 ...

The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year to breed millions of the insects in ...

The flies' larvae are aquatic, and adult female black flies can deposit from 150 to 500 eggs in flowing water. ... Deer flies have brightly colored eyes and patterned wings, ...