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The government plans to drop a horde of flies over Texas border. Here's why.
By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United ...
The US has a plan to breed millions of flies and drop them from planes. Here’s why
Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized ...
Flesh-eating pests are coming. US plans to counter them by releasing millions of flies from planes
The US government is planning to carry out a shocking plan in which they will take millions of sterile New World screwworm ...
New World screwworm reports halt cattle shipments from Mexico. How much danger do the parasites pose to humans?
The Department of Agriculture on Wednesday halted cattle shipments from Mexico to the United States over concerns of the New World screwworm parasite's rapid spread.
The US plans to drop millions of flies at the Texas border to fight a flesh-eating maggot
By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United ...
The USDA’s Unusual Plan to Stop a Flesh-Eating Parasite: Flies
The sterile fly technique, first used by the U.S. in the 1960s and now in Panama, prevents female screwworms from reproducing ...
A quick and easy way to add contemporary elegance to your garden
As well as their good looks, umbellifers are also famously attractive to a diverse range of pollinating insects ...
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The day the magpies left
When a pair of Himalayan magpies decided to trust Avay Shukla and family, neither party could have foreseen what lay ahead ...
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Brian Reidy: Weanling sales and managing grass for suckler performance
Some say successful beef and dairy enterprises are one-third breeding, one-third feeding and one-third management. But in ...