TOPEKA, Kan. — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to drop millions of flies over Texas and Mexico, in an effort to ...

Insects and lab-made animal protein have the potential to be far less damaging to the environment. And because pets tend to ...

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

Here’s one reason to shut down the border. To combat the flesh-eating larvae (maggots) of the New World Screwworm (NWS) that’s wreaking havoc among livestock along […] ...

The southern border was closed to imports of the animals after screwworm, eradicated in the U.S. for decades, had been moving northward in Mexico.

USDA will phase in cattle, bison, and equine imports from Mexico starting July 2025 after enhanced screwworm surveillance and ...

Stiles Farm Field Day featured new weed management methods and breakthrough agricultural technology innovations.

"It can spread quickly from one field to another if left unmanaged." Officials discover worrisome effects of 'rapid' increase ...

"What we grow in our backyards feeds our family and feeds our community." Officials raise red flags over increasing threat to ...

This week, we will cover pests just as destructive: insects. Damage to plants via insects, animals, or harsh environmental ...