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The tiny beetle could scarcely have picked a worse human to fly into. Amateur entomologist Andrew Short was sitting on a ...
Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized flies and drop them from the sky.
“Tina called me and she said, ‘Arthur, I love what you do with Olivia’s hair. I love all that color,'” Johns recalls. “She ...
The U.S. government is combating a potential invasion of flesh-eating New World screwworm maggots, which threaten livestock, ...
In his two-line poem, Ogden Nash wrote that “God in his wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why.” One Sunday a fly was buzzing around our church. I’m sure I was not the only parishioner ...
A parasitic fly known as the New World Screwworm has been located 400 miles from the U.S. border causing concern in the ...
Peak black fly season has passed in Michigan which is typically around mid-May through mid-June, but they continue to bite throughout summer and mainly in the Upper Peninsula and northern Michigan ...
Dealing with a fly infestation at home is annoying. Orange County had one that spanned almost 100 square miles.
Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of a roundworm used extensively in biological research, opening a new pathway ...
The move is part of the government's plans for protecting the U.S. from the New World screwworm fly, which could devastate ...
Sec. Driscoll and Gen. Rainey told BI that the Army is slimming down its crewed aircraft numbers and going after more drones.
The Department of Agriculture on Wednesday halted cattle shipments from Mexico to the United States over concerns of the New World screwworm parasite's rapid spread.