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A worker handles a tray with Mediterranean fruit flies inside a bio-factory as Mexico's government reconditions a plant to become the new sterile screwworm fly facility, part of the country's effort to eradicate the flesh-eating parasite, in Metapa de Dominguez, Mexico, on Oct. 17, 2025. Daniel Becerril/Reuters
The first production facility for sterile flies in the United States is slated to open by the end of 2027, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Feb. 9.
“That facility, the big facility, will be open ... by the end of next year,” Rollins said at a briefing with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
