The state of Texas has just devised a unique system for dealing with maggots: “raining flies.” A biological control program ...

The flesh-eating maggots go for most warm-blooded animals, including horses and cows. They have also been known to infect domestic pets and even humans in rare cases, Kaufman said.

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

An outbreak of New World screwworms — the larval form of a type of fly that’s known to nest in the wounds of warm-blooded animals and slowly eat them alive — has been spreading across ...

Researchers pushed screwworms out of Texas by the 1970s. Now that they are on their way back, agriculture leaders and ...

Following the detection of the flies moving north, officials immediately suspended imports of live cattle, horse and bison through U.S. ports of entry along the southern border on May 11 ...

New World screwworm flies cause myiasis, an infection of flesh-eating maggots that burrow into the skin of living animals, causing serious and often fatal damage, Reuters reported. The fly is named ...

Maggots might have helped our long-extinct relatives avoid protein poisoning by providing a nutritious source of fat, a new ...