By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United ...

The reemergence of the New World screwworm, which poses significant health risks for livestock, has prompted the Department ...

Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized ...

Fly and insect control can lead to healthier cattle and more money in producer's pockets. ... so that’s going to impact both dairy cattle and also our cow-calf operations,” Cammack said.

The US government is planning to carry out a shocking plan in which they will take millions of sterile New World screwworm ...

The strategy — essentially fighting flies with flies — slowly degraded the insects’ populations by preventing them from laying more eggs. ... cows make up about 83% of the affected animal ...

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

An international research team led by Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and the Joint FAO/IAEA Center of Nuclear ...