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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The United States and Mexico plan to reopen the U.S. border to Mexican cattle imports in July. U.S. agriculture officials had ...