Whoops! You left the door open, and one of the world’s least favorite flying guests just zipped inside: the house fly. Flies are everywhere, buzzing around your food, waste, and everything in between.

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 horror movie, ...

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 ...

The federal government is planning to breed millions of flies and dump them over Mexico and Texas via airplanes in an effort to combat a flesh-eating maggot. The pest being targeted is the ...

In one sense, raising a large colony of flies is relatively easy, said Cassandra Olds, an assistant professor of entomology at Kansas State University. But, she added, “You’ve got to give the female ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As if the world doesn’t have enough problems, the United States is concerned that a dangerous pest invasion could breach the southern border and severely impact the nation’s ...

A flesh-eating parasitic fly has spread north through Mexico to within a few hundred miles of the U.S. southern border. The ...

The U.S. government is combating a potential invasion of flesh-eating New World screwworm maggots with a multimillion-dollar plan Getty The U.S. government is combating a potential invasion of ...

The United States plans to breed thousands of sterile flies in a southern Texas factory in an effort to protect American cattle from flesh-eating maggots in Mexico. The New World screwworm is a ...