Clad in all kinds of ornate and beautiful colors, the butterfly is a winged insect that flies from flower to flower, consuming the rich, sugary nectar inside. There are nearly 20,000 species of ...

By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United ...

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

It’s pretty rare, but just like us mammals, some flies actually give live birth. One of them is a parasitic fly species Ormia ...

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

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 ...

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

Despite the plan sounding like something out of a horror movie, it is part of the government's bid to protect the US from a ...

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

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

The U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying a flesh-eating parasite has moved further north in ...

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