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

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

The pest spawns flesh-eating larvae that could devastate the American beef industry, decimate wildlife and even kill ...

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 ...

Since then, screwworm has been detected in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Mexico, north of the biological barrier that’s successfully contained this pest to South ...

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

As spring calving season continues, producers continue to monitor and assist when needed as their next calf crop hits the ground. Dealing with protective moms can be a challenging situation, two ...

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

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