Texas officials and organizations reacted positively to the announcement of a sterile fly dispersal facility coming to South ...

Gov. Abbott has ordered two Texas agencies to begin working together and with residents and business leaders to stop the ...

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 ...

The unusual operation is a critical part of a strategy to combat the spread of the flesh-eating screwworm fly, a pest that ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to drop millions of flies over Texas and Mexico, in an effort to ...

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

USDA combats flesh-eating New World Screwworm by breeding sterilized flies for release over Mexico and Texas, with a new fly ...

The federal government is currently breeding billions of sterile screwworm flies in an effort to combat a deadly parasite ...

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

The federal government plans to combat flesh-eating maggots threatening U.S. livestock by dropping millions of sterile flies ...

In 2022, it began moving north from Central America and has now spread into Mexico. By late May, according to Texas A&M AgriLife, screwworm was within 700 miles of Texas.

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