The federal government is going to take millions of sterile flies and dump them on Texas in the hopes that they’ll kill off a species of insect known for laying its flesh-eating larvae in the wounds ...

In a bold and unconventional effort to stave off a potentially devastating threat to its livestock industry, the United ...

The federal government is going to take millions of sterile flies and dump them on Texas in the hopes that they’ll kill off a ...

It was the early 1960s, but I vividly remember being at a summer camp just west of Kerrville when something drifted down from ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced risk-based port re-openings for cattle, bison, and equines from ...

USDA releases billions of sterile flies from planes to fight deadly flesh-eating maggots threatening livestock.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to drop millions of flies over Texas and Mexico, in an effort to ...

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

With flesh-eating maggots back in Texas, the USDA plans to release sterilized flies to curb the outbreak, bringing back a ...

Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced risk-based port re-openings for cattle, bison and equines from Mexico ...

Re-emergence of the New World Screwworm (NWS) has become a recent concern for American agriculture. As the fly moves closer ...