The unusual operation is a critical part of a strategy to combat the spread of the flesh-eating screwworm fly, a pest that poses a serious threat to the beef industry, wildlife, and even household ...

The pest spawns flesh-eating larvae that could devastate the American beef industry, decimate wildlife and even kill ...

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

The U.S. government announced plans Wednesday to build an $8.5 million fly-breeding facility near the US-Mexico border as part of an initiative to prevent a flesh-eating parasite from infesting ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is planning to build a facility in Texas to produce sterile flies to combat the spread of a deadly flesh-eating parasite that’s been detected in parts of Mexico. The ...

You can also build or buy a fruit fly trap and hang it near your plants. Such traps have a pheromone lure that attracts and drowns fruit flies in a reservoir of water at each trap’s base.

The larvae feed on the pulp, leading to internal rotting, discoloration and rapid spoilage of the fruit. As a result, traders are not procuring the infested produce.

Thousands of fish farmers across Kenya are set to benefit from a new initiative promoting black soldier fly farming, which is expected to slash the cost of fish feeds by more than half.

The program, launched through a partnership between the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Aquaculture Business Development Programme (ABDP), will establish over 500 ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The Texas Department of Agriculture is on alert as the threat of screwworm, a flesh-eating fly larva, looms closer to the U.S. border. Commissioner Sid Miller ...

The US Government will be opening a fly factory in Texas to mass produce millions of infecund flies as part of a sterilization campaign aimed at eliminating the flesh-eating parasite screwworm.