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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico ...

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

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

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 ...

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot.. That sounds like the plot of a horror ...