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

The Trump Administration is leading the effort to prevent the spread of the New World Screwworm, which was eradicated in the ...

In a bold and unconventional effort to stave off a potentially devastating threat to its livestock industry, the United ...

The federal government is going to take millions of sterile flies and dump them on Texas in the hopes that they’ll kill off a ...

The unusual operation is a critical part of a strategy to combat the spread of the flesh-eating screwworm fly, a pest that ...

The federal government is currently breeding billions of sterile screwworm flies in an effort to combat a deadly parasite ...

It was the early 1960s, but I vividly remember being at a summer camp just west of Kerrville when something drifted down from ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced risk-based port re-openings for cattle, bison, and equines from ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to drop millions of flies over Texas and Mexico, in an effort to ...

The US plans to release billions of radiation-treated flies to stop flesh-eating maggots threatening livestock, wildlife, and ...

Since then, screwworm has been detected in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Mexico, north of the biological barrier that’s successfully contained this pest to South ...

Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...