The US has reportedly drawn up plans to breed billions of flies over Mexico in an attempt to eradicate a vicious variety of ...

The Trump administration plans to breed billions of flies to airdrop over Mexico and southern Texas in an effort to stamp out ...

The New World Screwworm Fly, which lays flesh-eating maggots, has appeared in southern Mexico. Scientists are concerned that ...

The move is part of the government's plans for protecting the U.S. from the New World screwworm fly, which could devastate ...

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

The U.S. has blocked imports of live cattle, horses, and bison through southern border ports following the resurgence in Mexico of the New World Screwworm, a parasitic fly that infects animals and ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, cowboys carried a stick to treat cattle infested with screwworms. The stick was used to scrape the ...

The capacity to grieve for dying loved ones was long considered a uniquely human ability. But now, researchers from Japan ...

“Maggots cause extensive damage by tearing at the hosts’ tissue with sharp mouth hooks,” according to the APHIS website. This can then enlarge the wound and attract more flies to lay eggs.

The New World Screwworm poses a serious threat to livestock, pets and in rare cases, humans. According to MBAH, the screwworm was eradicated from the U.S. decades ago, but has recently been detected ...