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

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.

Hundreds of millions of flies dropping from planes in the sky might sound like a horrible nightmare, but experts say such a swarm could be the livestock industry’s best defense against a flesh ...

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

USDA combats flesh-eating New World Screwworm by breeding sterilized flies for release over Mexico and Texas, with a new fly factory planned for 2026.

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 ...