Former Cuban doctor Yodermis Diaz Hernandez makes more money these days raising black soldier flies - whose larvae can be ...

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.

The pest spawns flesh-eating larvae that could devastate the American beef industry, decimate wildlife and even kill ...

The US plans to begin breeding billions of flies to fight a pest The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas ...

The targeted pest is the flesh-eating larva of the New World Screwworm fly. The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to ramp up the breeding and distribution of adult male flies — sterilizing ...

Most fly larvae feed on dead flesh, making the New World screwworm fly and its Old World counterpart in Asia and Africa outliers — and for the American beef industry, a serious threat.