Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New World screwworms are the flesh-eating, larval form of Cochliomyia hominivorax, a species of blow fly. - Michael Miller/Texas A ...

The state of Texas has just devised a unique system for dealing with maggots: “raining flies.” A biological control program is using sterile flies and fly eggs to fight flesh-eating maggots. The ...

The U.S. government is combating a potential invasion of flesh-eating New World screwworm maggots, which threaten livestock, wildlife, and humans, with projected losses topping $100 billion A $29.5 ...

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a horror movie, ...

The Department of Agriculture is pursuing a disgusting—but effective—strategy to eliminate the larva of the New World screwworm fly. Reading time 3 minutes The U.S. The Department of Agriculture has ...

The federal government is planning to breed millions of flies and dump them over Mexico and Texas via airplanes in an effort to combat a flesh-eating maggot. The pest being targeted is the ...

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a horror movie, ...

A type of flesh-eating maggot is making a comeback — and it’s creeping toward the United States. The new world screwworm is a blowfly whose larvae burrow into animal wounds and gorge on living tissue.