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

The U.S. government plans to release billions of sterilized flies over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating pest that threatens livestock and wildlife.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the ...

Picture: Alamy A dog infected by the flesh-eating maggots. Picture: COPEG Reports suggest the screwworm fly factory in Mexico will become operational within a year, with a fly factory already ...

Larvae (maggots): The larvae of flies hatch from eggs as maggots. Maggots play a crucial role in decomposing organic matter, which makes it readily available for plants and other organisms ...