America has stopped taking animals from northern Mexico. This is because of the New World Screwworm fly. This fly is harmful ...

If the flying menaces hanging out around your houseplants and seedlings are getting on your last nerve, here’s how you get ...

Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized flies and drop them from the sky.

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

Dealing with a fly infestation at home is annoying. Orange County had one that spanned almost 100 square miles.

Hoverflies can carry pollen over greater distances than bees and pollinate many plants that grow in your garden or yard. Look ...

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

The New World screwworm fly, a flesh-eating parasite, is making a concerning comeback. Learn about the screwworm's threat to ...

In his two-line poem, Ogden Nash wrote that “God in his wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why.” One Sunday a fly was buzzing around our church. I’m sure I was not the only parishioner ...

The Department of Agriculture on Wednesday halted cattle shipments from Mexico to the United States over concerns of the New World screwworm parasite's rapid spread.

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 ...

It’s pretty rare, but just like us mammals, some flies actually give live birth. One of them is a parasitic fly species Ormia ochracea ( O. ochracea ). A new study published this week in the Annals of ...