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

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

The U.S. government announced plans Wednesday to build an $8.5 million fly-breeding facility near the US-Mexico border as part of an initiative to prevent a flesh-eating parasite from infesting ...

Cattle in North America are threatened by a flesh-eating parasitic fly which is making its way up from South America and Mexico. New World screwworm (NWS), Cochliomyia hominivorax, is a ...

The United States government is dropping $8.5 million to build a factory in Texas that will mass-produced infertile New World Screwworm (NWS) flies, with the sole mission of eradicating a flesh ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The Texas Department of Agriculture is on alert as the threat of screwworm, a flesh-eating fly larva, looms closer to the U.S. border.

The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year, announcing its intent Wednesday to breed millions of the insects in Texas near the border with Mexico as ...

Fighting flies with flies. The US government will be opening a fly factory in Texas to mass produce millions of infertile flies as part of a sterilization campaign aimed at eliminating a flesh ...

The US plans to open a fly factory in Texas to fight a flesh-eating parasite The New World screwworm fly’s appearance in southern Mexico late last year has worried agriculture and cattle ...

The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year to breed millions of the insects in Texas near the border with Mexico as part of an effort to keep a flesh ...