Not all — there are exceptions — but many love to break the sport down and silo the tools and tactics within it into those ...

Sunset Middle School student Christopher Mares, 11, walks his dairy Holstein commercial heifer through the cattle barn during ...

State, city and county inspectors have cited Iowa restaurants, schools and stores for hundreds of food-safety violations during the past several weeks, including offenses related to rodents, ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - State, city and county inspectors have cited Iowa restaurants, schools and stores for hundreds of food-safety violations during the past several weeks, ...

A New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, was discovered just south of the Texas border, raising alarms among cattle growers and ag officials. The fly lays eggs in cattle and other warm-blooded ...

Students from Heritage University and Northwest Indian College were the first to document the presence of the spotted wing drosophila on the Yakama Nation Reservation — a first step to help eradicate ...

YAKIMA CANYON – At first, it was a faint roar, just loud enough to wake me up. Then the roar kept building, growing louder until it filled the soundless desert canyon threaded by the Yakima River. A ...

When describing a fly, many people think of the ubiquitous house fly (Musca domestica); whereas, some biologists might envision the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Both are good examples of ...

There is a large bug that is buzzing around the yards of New York State. It looks so much like a mosquito and it has many people wondering if it is dangerous? It has six legs and what looks like one ...

The patient had traveled to Central America, where an outbreak of myiasis, an infection by screwworm larvae, has been ravaging livestock. By Alexa Robles-Gil In early August, a case of myiasis, an ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New World screwworm flies lay eggs in mammals’ wounds, causing an infestation of flesh-eating larvae. The ...

Flesh-eating screwworm larvae poised to invade the US have snuck into Maryland via the flesh of a person who had recently traveled to El Salvador, upping anxiety about the ghastly—and economically ...