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

The United States has suspended all animal imports from Mexico due to a parasitic fly that can produce flesh-eating maggots. New World screwworms are the cause of the indefinite suspension of ...

The federal government plans to combat flesh-eating maggots threatening U.S. livestock by dropping millions of sterile flies ...

The screwworm fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax) has continued to spread among the endangered deer, which have a total population of only 1,300 to 1,500, says Kate Watts, a biologist with the Florida ...

Flies emerge from the soil seven to 54 days later and then the cycle begins again. During a lifespan, female New World Screwworms can lay up to 3,000 eggs, the USDA states. Infected animals tend ...

Perhaps it’s because these scientists are privy to the bumblebee-sized human botfly’s incredible life cycle, which just so happens to come at the expense of our physical and psychological comfort.

After carefully studying the life cycle, USDA scientists figured out a way to sterilize male fly larvae with doses of gamma radiation without hurting the males' abilities to find mates. USDA ...

While the screwworm, a fly that lays eggs in the openings of mammals to start a deadly cycle for its host, isn't yet in the U.S., Texas lawmakers are now taking a step against stopping it.

The US Government will be opening a fly factory in Texas to mass produce millions of infecund flies as part of a sterilization campaign aimed at eliminating the flesh-eating parasite screwworm.

The United States has suspended all animal imports from Mexico due to a parasitic fly that can produce flesh-eating maggots. New World screwworms are the cause of the indefinite suspension of ...

The United States has suspended all animal imports from Mexico due to a parasitic fly that can produce flesh-eating maggots. New World screwworms are the cause of the indefinite suspension of ...