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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

Justin Smith of the Kansas Department of Agriculture talks about the New World Screwworm parasite and its northward expansion ...

No, it’s not a sci-fi movie. The USDA is planning to release flies from planes to stop the spread of a gruesome parasite.

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

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

Here’s one reason to shut down the border. To combat the flesh-eating larvae (maggots) of the New World Screwworm (NWS) that’s wreaking havoc among livestock along […] ...