The move is part of the government's plans for protecting the U.S. from the New World screwworm fly, which could devastate ...

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

The USDA expects a new screwworm fly factory to be up and running in southern Mexico by July 2026. It plans to open a fly ...

The U.S. government is combating a potential invasion of flesh-eating New World screwworm maggots with a multimillion-dollar ...

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

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 ...

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

The US plans to release billions of radiation-treated flies to stop flesh-eating maggots threatening livestock, wildlife, and ...

The USDA launched a bold plan to halt the spread of deadly ‘man-eater’ maggots as a potential infestation threatens livestock ...

The USDA partners with Mexico to create a buffer zone south of the border, releasing the sterile flies in coordination to ...

The targeted pest is the flesh-eating larva of the New World Screwworm fly. The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to ramp up the breeding and distribution of adult male flies — sterilizing ...

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