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

Though roughly 700 miles from the Texas border, the New World screwworm poses a significant threat that could impact American ...

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 ...

The federal government is currently breeding billions of sterile screwworm flies in an effort to combat a deadly parasite ...

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 ...

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

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

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

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

The southern border was closed to imports of the animals after screwworm, eradicated in the U.S. for decades, had been moving northward in Mexico.