Greenhead flies typically emerge from eggs inside salt marshes at the end of June, which is prime time for beachgoers.

Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized ...

Should the flies reach the states, the larvae could infest livestock, pets, wildlife and, possibly, even people.

By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United ...

The move is part of the government's plans for protecting the U.S. from the New World screwworm fly, which could devastate ...

Having flies in your home is annoying and practically inevitable, but there is a simple way to get rid of them that's ...

The U.S. government is combating a potential invasion of flesh-eating New World screwworm maggots, which threaten livestock, ...

In a new study published and featured in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, researchers have discovered that ...