In parts of Central America, illegal ranching on protected lands has become a front for drug trafficking and money laundering ...

Screwworms are possibly the most aptly named parasites imaginable, both literally and figuratively. Screwworms—technically, ...

A bipartisan push to fund sterile fly production aims to stop a flesh-eating pest creeping up from Mexico and threatening U.S. cattle ...

Last week, the United States halted all cattle trade with Mexico to stop the spread of a parasitic flesh-eating fly known as ...

How Fruit Flies Flit Between Courtship and Aggression to Fight for Mates Feb. 13, 2025 — Male fruit flies don't just sing to their mates; they also use sound-cancelling wing-flicks to jockey ...

By the 1950s, the federal government established the Sterile Insect Technique, a method that utilized radiation to sterilize male flies. These mass-produced sterile males were released into target ...

Scientists have tamped down previous outbreaks by breeding and releasing sterile male flies, thereby suppressing breeding populations, NDA added. But a more recent outbreak in 2016 still managed ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said May 11 that it is suspending imports of livestock through Mexico because of New World Screwworm threats.

Here in the U.S., the Agriculture Department eradicated the NWS parasite in 1966 by releasing sterile male flies and pupae to eventually lead to infertile screwworm flies, according to the USDA's ...