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The New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) lays its eggs in open wounds and in the orifices of live, warm-blooded animals – including, occasionally, humans. The maggots then devour the animal’s ...

Take a drive across New Mexico’s sweeping plains and you are likely to encounter a songbird whose name suits a slasher film. The butcherbird — or more formally, loggerhead shrike — is rather ...

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A devastating agricultural pest, the New World Screwworm Fly (NWS), has been eradicated in the United States since 1982. Today, it’s marching closer to American borders, and local, state, and national ...

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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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A flesh-eating parastic fly is inching back ever-closer to the United States border as funding for surveillance of the ...