Texas skies are about to get crowded, but not with birds or drones. Instead, millions of sterilized flies are being released ...

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

The folks at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas Animal Health Commission are hoping for the best and preparing ...

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

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

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

The unusual operation is a critical part of a strategy to combat the spread of the flesh-eating screwworm fly, a pest that poses a serious threat to the beef industry, wildlife, and even household ...

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

According to experts from Texas A&M, the New World screwworm is a tropical, parasitic fly native to the Western Hemisphere.

The New World screwworm, eradicated in the United States in the 1960s, could again pose a threat to Texas livestock, the beef ...

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