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 USDA plans to open fly breeding and distribution centers to stop the spread of the screwworm fly. Sterile male flies will be released to curb wild breeding and reduce the population. The pest can ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — 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 ...

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.