Millions of flies to be dropped over Texas to combat flesh-eating maggots - The U.S. government wiped out the Screwworm flies in the southwest in the 1960’s, but they’re back again

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to drop millions of flies over Texas and Mexico, in an effort to quell the emergence of a flesh-eating maggot known as the New World screwworm.

The federal government plans to combat flesh-eating maggots threatening U.S. livestock by dropping millions of sterile flies from airplanes over Texas and Mexico.