Some farmers and crop consultants in southern, central and eastern Nebraska are seeing young corn plants with wilted or dead ...

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot.

The United States plans to bring back a somewhat shocking, but very effective, campaign to fight a flesh-eating parasitic fly that's been sighted in Mexico. The plan: Breed millions of ...

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

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot.

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

The Department of Agriculture is pursuing a disgusting—but effective—strategy to eliminate the larva of the New World ...

District Council 33 was on strike for nearly three weeks in 1986. The trash on Philadelphia streets a few days into the ...

USDA releases billions of sterile flies from planes to fight deadly flesh-eating maggots threatening livestock.

The pest spawns flesh-eating larvae that could devastate the American beef industry, decimate wildlife and even kill household pets.

The USDA expects a new screwworm fly factory to be up and running in southern Mexico by July 2026. It plans to open a fly ...