For the first time in a year, the U.S.-Mexico border partly reopened to cattle imports following a screwworm infestation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Luke Gascoigne has several levels of methods of dealing with the flies but just wants a permanent stop to the infestations [BBC] ...

Like the males of many animal species, male Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies, a commonly studied lab animal, are aggressive toward one another and even fight when competing for resources such ...

Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday the state and federal governments are ramping up efforts to combat an infestation of New World screwworm flies that is likely to spread through the summer. The ...

KERRVILLE, Texas, July 23 (Reuters) - At a U.S.-funded facility in Panama, scientists are preparing to launch the first outdoor tests of genetically modified screwworm flies, a milestone in efforts ...

Chicago — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will disperse glow-in-the dark, sterile flies in Mexico, closer to the U.S. border, and in southern Texas, as officials race to keep flesh-eating New ...

KERRVILLE, Texas — At a U.S.-funded facility in Panama, scientists are preparing to launch the first outdoor tests of genetically modified screwworm flies, a milestone in efforts to develop a more ...