A U.S.-based facility dedicated to releasing sterile screwworm flies began operations Monday in Texas, marking a major step in efforts to prevent the flesh-eating parasite from crossing the Mexican ...

The U.S. government is reviving an old Cold War-style tactic to combat a tiny but terrifying threat: the New World screwworm fly, a small tropical insect whose larvae burrow into the flesh of living ...

Screwworms are fly larvae or maggots that feed on living tissue instead of decomposing tissue. The New World Screwworm was discovered in the Florida Key's endangered Key deer population in 2016. The ...

Texas is gearing up for war as a savage, flesh-eating fly appears poised for a US invasion and is expanding its range of victims. On Friday, the Texas Department of Agriculture announced the debut of ...

A parasitic fly that eats human tissues and lays eggs in open wounds has been detected just 90 miles from the U.S. border. New World screwworms also deposit their eggs, which hatch into maggots and ...

(CNN) — Hundreds of millions of flies dropping from planes in the sky might sound like a horrible nightmare, but experts say such a swarm could be the livestock industry’s best defense against a flesh ...

Missouri and federal officials are gearing up to stop the advance of a parasitic fly that is less than 70 miles from the United States border with Mexico. State and federal officials are gearing up to ...

State and federal officials are gearing up to stop the advance of a parasitic fly that is less than 70 miles from the United States border with Mexico. Since Nov. 25, at least 10 new cases of ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The maggots, which were thought to be eradicated in the 1970s, reappeared in southern Mexico late last year. USDA Agricultural Research Service/Reuters The ...