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Flesh-eating flies poised to invade US
In an effort to curb the spread, the United States will domestically produce millions of sterile flies to diminish the pests’ ...
Billions of flies to be dumped out of planes in an effort to fight flesh-eating maggot known as "man-eater"
The move is part of the government's plans for protecting the U.S. from the New World screwworm fly, which could devastate ...
The government plans to drop a horde of flies over Texas border. Here's why.
By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United ...
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Scientists To Drop Millions of Flies From Planes — it's a Strategy to Save People and Animals
While this plan was being executed, the government put a stop to the trading in the southern US to prevent the crisis from ...
The US has a plan to breed millions of flies and drop them from planes. Here’s why
Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized ...
US has reclosed its southern border after a flesh-eating parasite is seen further north in Mexico
The U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying a flesh-eating parasite has moved further north in ...
Flesh-eating pests are coming. US plans to counter them by releasing millions of flies from planes
The US government is planning to carry out a shocking plan in which they will take millions of sterile New World screwworm ...
The government’s plan to fight a livestock-threatening plague sounds like a movie plot: dropping millions of flies from planes
To stop a flesh-eating parasite from crossing the border, the U.S. is reviving an unusual Cold War-era tactic involving ...
From Raining Flies to Baking Soda: How to Effectively Kill Maggots
The state of Texas has just devised a unique system for dealing with maggots: “raining flies.” A biological control program ...
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Flesh-eating flies pose huge threat to Florida, prompting border shutdown
An old threat is rearing its ugly head once again, posing a huge risk to the Sunshine State, according to state officials.
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Flesh-eating screwworm fly prompts livestock import ban at US-Mexico border
The U.S. has shut its southern border to livestock imports again after a flesh-eating parasite was found further north in ...
U.S. plans to combat spread of "man-eater" screwworms with $8.5M facility of flies in Texas
The facility will breed millions of sterile New World screwworm flies at Moore Air Base, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Wednesday.