The US government is preparing to release billions of sterilized flies over southern Texas and Mexico in an effort to stop ...

Texas officials and organizations reacted positively to the announcement of a sterile fly dispersal facility coming to South ...

The folks at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas Animal Health Commission are hoping for the best and preparing ...

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

Gov. Abbott has ordered two Texas agencies to begin working together and with residents and business leaders to stop the ...

The federal government is going to take millions of sterile flies and dump them on Texas in the hopes that they'll kill off a ...

The USDA partners with Mexico to create a buffer zone south of the border, releasing the sterile flies in coordination to stop re-infestation before it crosses into U.S. territory. Without the program ...

The unusual operation is a critical part of a strategy to combat the spread of the flesh-eating screwworm fly, a pest that poses a serious threat to the beef industry, wildlife, and even household ...

USDA combats flesh-eating New World Screwworm by breeding sterilized flies for release over Mexico and Texas, with a new fly ...

According to experts from Texas A&M, the New World screwworm is a tropical, parasitic fly native to the Western Hemisphere.

The New World screwworm, eradicated in the United States in the 1960s, could again pose a threat to Texas livestock, the beef ...

Here in Central Texas and across the state officials are now preparing for an outbreak of the New World screwworm, a parasite ...