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

The federal government plans to combat flesh-eating maggots threatening U.S. livestock by dropping millions of sterile flies ...

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

The unusual operation is a critical part of a strategy to combat the spread of the flesh-eating screwworm fly, a pest that ...

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

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

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

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

It was the early 1960s, but I vividly remember being at a summer camp just west of Kerrville when something drifted down from ...

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

New World screwworms can devastate the cattle industry. That's why Gov. Abbott has created a task for to take them on.