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 ...

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

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

Millions of flies to be dropped over Texas to combat flesh-eating maggots - The U.S. government wiped out the Screwworm flies in the Southwest in the 1960’s, but they’re back again ...

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

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

Texas officials ramp up efforts against the New World screwworm, launching a response team to safeguard animals and ...

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 ...

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 is posing a serious threat to Texas livestock, the beef industry, and the broader state economy.