A devastating agricultural pest, the New World Screwworm Fly (NWS), has been eradicated in the United States since 1982.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These flies aren't like their relatives that feed on dead and decaying animals. No, the flesh-eating maggots of these parasitic ...

A flesh eating parasitic fly has spread north through Mexico to within a few hundred miles of the US southern border. The New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) lays its eggs in open wounds and ...

In an old coal-mining town in northern Texas, around 130 miles from Dallas/Fort Worth, Greg Buenger raises beef cattle on his ranch. But Buenger, also a Texas Farm Bureau District 3 state director and ...

A woman who lost her face to a condition inflicted by a flesh-eating bug has received a new one from a donor who died from euthanasia in a world-first. The ground-breaking procedure took place at a ...