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

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

Here’s one reason to shut down the border. To combat the flesh-eating larvae (maggots) of the New World Screwworm (NWS) that’s wreaking havoc among livestock along […] ...

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

The federal government plans to combat flesh-eating maggots threatening U.S. livestock by dropping millions of sterile flies ...

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

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 ...

There is already a fly factory in Panama, capable of breeding up to 117 million flies a week. But that is now considered inadequate by the US, which wants to quadruple production and has earmarked ...