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

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 ...

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

The United States has temporarily closed its southern border to livestock imports due to the northward spread of the New World screwworm fly in Mexico, a flesh-eating parasite posing a significant ...

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

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