By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United ...

Secretary Rollins takes decisive action and shuts down U.S. Southern border ports to livestock trade due to further northward ...

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

The Agriculture Department said Wednesday evening that the U.S. would be closing the southern border to livestock trade, ...

The folks at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas Animal Health Commission are hoping for the best and preparing ...

Sterile male flies have been released into the wild with the theory that the wild female will mate with the sterile male and ...

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

The sterile fly technique, first used by the U.S. in the 1960s and now in Panama, prevents female screwworms from reproducing ...

The USDA describes the New World Screwworm as a metallic green-blue fly with large orange eyes, about twice the size of a common house fly. NWS do not bite animals and their damage comes from laying ...

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