The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to ...

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

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 ...

In a bold and unconventional effort to stave off a potentially devastating threat to its livestock industry, the United ...

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

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced risk-based port re-openings for cattle, bison, and equines from ...

Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association assisted in the launch of a new website to serve as a centralized hub for producers, landowners and wildlife managers navigating the threat of the New ...

USDA releases billions of sterile flies from planes to fight deadly flesh-eating maggots threatening livestock.

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

The New World Screwworm (NWS), a parasitic fly once eradicated from North and Central America through decades of coordinated effort by governments and livestock producers, is making a troubling return ...

Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...

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