Texas logged 4 screwworm cases in nearly mid-way through July after 31 in June. See how the outbreak stands and the county ...

Since the first USDA report of New World screwworms on June 3, cases have risen to 29. Here's what to know in the Tar Heel ...

A threat to American livestock – the New World Screwworm (NWS) fly, which has been considered eradicated from the country since 1966 — has reemerged as a potential danger following an outbreak in ...

People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated, or stored in engineered ponds such as manure lagoons. Now, researchers report a potential removal method using ...

Health officials are warning of a parasitic fly whose larvae feed on living tissue and can infest humans. The larvae feed on healthy tissue, according to health experts. New World Screwworm was ...

The New World screwworm, a parasitic fly, has been detected in Texas cattle and in a New Mexico house dog, decades after ...

Officials in nine countries are trying to get a handle on the New World screwworm, a fly whose larvae eat the living flesh of livestock. The pest is marching northward at an alarming rate and has now ...

The New World screwworm is spreading in the U.S. Here's why this parasite is harming animals and and what Arizona pet owners need to know.

A U.S. patient in Maryland was diagnosed with New World screwworm after traveling to El Salvador. The New World screwworm, eradicated from the U.S. in the 1960s, is a parasitic fly whose larvae infest ...

Inexpensive to raise and insatiably hungry for trash, black soldier fly larvae are already on the menu for livestock, pets and, maybe soon, people Black soldier fly larvae grow in a high-tech facility ...

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

How does a fly larva sneak into a termite nest? With a butt shaped like a termite’s head, obviously. An international team of researchers in Morocco has discovered blow fly larvae not just living but ...