The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to ...

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

USDA releases billions of sterile flies from planes to fight deadly flesh-eating maggots threatening livestock.

The Department of Agriculture is pursuing a disgusting—but effective—strategy to eliminate the larva of the New World ...

The US government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to ...

The U.S. government plans to release billions of sterilized flies over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating pest ...

Cattle producers should aggressively control external parasites this summer. Insecticide ear tags don't do enough to control ticks. Experts also suggest incorporating a backrubber for the cattle and ...

The U.S. is ramping up the fight against a parasite that experts say is a multibillion-dollar threat to the Texas cattle industry. NBC 5’s Keenan Willard has the latest on the New World screwworm.

DAILY Bites Whole genome analysis of 160 parasite samples revealed no recent hybridization between Schistosoma haematobium (human) and Schistosoma bovis (cattle). Evidence of ancient gene flow ...