The U.S. plans to open a fly factory in Texas as part of an effort to keep a flesh-eating parasite from infesting American ...

Bag the fruit up to prevent fruit flies from laying eggs on developing fruit. This needs to be done early, ideally once the ...

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.

An insect, the New World Screwworm (NWS), is being described as one that could have a “devastating impact on livestock herds ...

The US government will build a facility in Texas. It aims to breed sterile flies. This is to protect cattle from screwworms.

Screwworm parasites primarily infect livestock, but human cases have risen in Central America after the pests escaped ...

The New World screwworm parasite has been detected in Mexico, prompting the U.S. Agriculture Department to launch an $8.5 ...

Millions of sterile flies will soon take flight from a new Texas facility, as the US launches an ambitious campaign to halt ...

The USDA will open a fly facility in South Texas to slow the screwworm spread. The parasitic insect threatens cattle and has ...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins came to the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas on Wednesday and announced what she ...

The US government will be opening a fly factory in Texas to mass produce millions of infertile flies as part of a ...