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 ...

The unusual operation is a critical part of a strategy to combat the spread of the flesh-eating screwworm fly, a pest that poses a serious threat to the beef industry, wildlife, and even household ...

The federal government is currently breeding billions of sterile screwworm flies in an effort to combat a deadly parasite ...

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.

With flesh-eating maggots back in Texas, the USDA plans to release sterilized flies to curb the outbreak, bringing back a ...

Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...

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

The U.S. will begin reopening ports for livestock imports from Mexico starting July 7, after progress in controlling New ...

The southern border was closed to imports of the animals after screwworm, eradicated in the U.S. for decades, had been moving northward in Mexico.