NovoFly Screwworm Strain Readied for Active Duty

NovoFly TM Screwworm Strain Readied for Active Duty By: Jan Suszkiw Email: arspress@usda.gov American scientific ingenuity in the form of sterile fly releases helped eliminate New World screwworm from the country in the 1960s. Now, ARS researchers are combining that ingenuity with next-generation tools to counter new resurgences of the pest threatening livestock and wildlife in New Mexico and Texas. “Releasing sterile screwworm flies is a proven, decades-old approach to eliminating populations of this pest and preventing the harm it inflicts—physically to livestock animals and wildlife and fin