These flies lay eggs on open wounds, and their larvae feed on live flesh. And a case was just stopped in a Florida quarantine. What to know.

Wait and watch. That is about all ranchers, wildlife managers and hunters can do right now as flies producing maggots called the New World Screwworm inch their way toward the Texas border. A major ...

The state of Texas has just devised a unique system for dealing with maggots: “raining flies.” A biological control program is using sterile flies and fly eggs to fight flesh-eating maggots. The ...