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Millions of flies to be dropped over Texas to combat flesh-eating maggots
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 species of insect known for laying its flesh-eating larvae in the wounds of warm-blooded animals.
Gov. Abbott has ordered two Texas agencies to begin working together and with residents and business leaders to stop the ...
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 ...
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 ...
It was the early 1960s, but I vividly remember being at a summer camp just west of Kerrville when something drifted down from ...
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To fight screwworm, the U.S. is opening a South Texas facility to disperse sterile fliesScrewworm is a parasitic fly that targets warm-blooded animals and has the potential to disrupt Texas’ $15 billion cattle industry.
New World screwworms can devastate the cattle industry. That's why Gov. Abbott has created a task for to take them on.
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