The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to ...

USDA and Mexican authorities have increased surveillance, detection, and eradication efforts, including: Establishing a ...

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 ...

In a bold and unconventional effort to stave off a potentially devastating threat to its livestock industry, the United ...

It was the early 1960s, but I vividly remember being at a summer camp just west of Kerrville when something drifted down from ...

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 ...

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

Historically, the screwworm was a big problem in several areas of the southern U.S. prior to its eradication in the 1960s.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced risk-based port re-openings for cattle, bison and equines from Mexico ...