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

The federal government plans to combat flesh-eating maggots threatening U.S. livestock by dropping millions of sterile flies ...

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

Texas officials and organizations reacted positively to the announcement of a sterile fly dispersal facility coming to South ...

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

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

Texas agencies are ganging up on a bad, bad worm. According to a release, the Texas Animal Health Commission and Texas Parks ...

Texas forms a special screwworm task force to stop the deadly pest threatening livestock, deer herds, and outdoor pets across ...

The U.S Department of Agriculture shut down animal imports through ports along the southern border due to a growing outbreak ...

A parasitic fly that devastated Texas livestock in the 1960s is spreading north through Central America and potentially ...

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