After a decades-long hiatus, new world screwworm populations have surged in Central America and Mexico — and are inching northward.

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 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 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 ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — 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 ...

Whoops! You left the door open, and one of the world’s least favorite flying guests just zipped inside: the house fly. Flies are everywhere, buzzing around your food, waste, and everything in between.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Maggots infested the noses of two comatose patients at a Veteran's Administration hospital, and mice were so common that nurses cared for some of them as pets, according to a ...