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

Historically, the screwworm was a big problem in several areas of the southern U.S. prior to its eradication in the 1960s.

In the 1940s and 50s, cowboys carried a stick to treat cattle infested with screwworms. The stick was used to scrape the ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, cowboys carried a stick to treat cattle infested with screwworms. The stick was used to scrape the ...

Gov. Abbott has ordered two Texas agencies to begin working together and with residents and business leaders to stop the ...

A dad-of-six has shared his disgust upon discovering the packaged Costco rotisserie chicken he brought home was infested with ...

USDA combats flesh-eating New World Screwworm by breeding sterilized flies for release over Mexico and Texas, with a new fly ...

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

A female fly will often lay eggs in a wound or orifice of a live, warm-blooded animal. The eggs then hatch into larvae (maggots) that burrow into the flesh, causing potentially deadly damage.

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

In this Jan. 2024 photo provided by The Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Cattle Screwworms (COPEG), a worker drops New World screwworm fly larvae into a tray ...