Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized ...

The New World Screwworm is creeping north, threatening cattle in Mexico and the US. Fighting flies with flies has worked ...

It's an effort to combat the spread of the flesh-eating screwworm fly, a pest that poses a serious threat to the beef ...

The next step to battling NWS is using swormlure, a synthetic bait designed to attract adult screwworm flies, combined with ...

US News: The United States has stopped livestock coming from northern Mexico. This is because of the New World Screwworm fly. This fly is dangerous to animals.

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a horror ...

Should the flies reach the states, the larvae could infest livestock, pets, wildlife and, possibly, even people.

The US plans to begin breeding billions of flies to fight a pest. Here is how it will work It's part of plans for protecting the U.S. from the New World screwworm fly, which spawns flesh-eating ...

USDA combats flesh-eating New World Screwworm by breeding sterilized flies for release over Mexico and Texas, with a new fly factory planned for 2026.

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The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot.