Despite keeping my kitchen clean and tidy, and wiping down surfaces as soon as I spot even the smallest crumb, fruit flies ...

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

The US Government will be opening a fly factory in Texas to mass produce millions of infecund flies as part of a sterilization campaign aimed at eliminating the flesh-eating parasite screwworm.

A flesh-eating parasitic fly is invading North and Central America. The consequences could be severe for the cattle industry, but this parasite is not picky—it will infest a wide range of hosts ...

Left image: Tumor cells (green) and dying cancer cells (magenta). Right image: Blocking macrophages from eating dying cancer cells suppresses tumor growth in fruit flies.

The US plans to open a fly factory in Texas to fight a flesh-eating parasite The New World screwworm fly’s appearance in southern Mexico late last year has worried agriculture and cattle ...

A flesh-eating parasitic fly is invading North and Central America. The consequences could be severe for the cattle industry, but this parasite is not picky – it will infest a wide range of ...

The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year to breed millions of the insects in Texas near the border with Mexico as part of an effort to keep a flesh ...