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

Something is damaging impatiens, and Texas continues to feel the lingering impact of the February 2021 winter storm.

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

A national research team led by Michigan State University recently received a $500,000 grant from the United Soybean Board to ...

Historically, the screwworm was a big problem in several areas of the southern U.S. prior to its eradication in the 1960s.

The U.S. bred and released sterile New World screwworm flies into the wild decades ago, and it was largely banished from the country in the 1960s. Previously, it had been an annual scourge for cattle ...

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

The northern Manitoba town of Lynn Lake has issued a mandatory evacuation order as a nearby wildfire threatens to cause an ...

Here’s one reason to shut down the border. To combat the flesh-eating larvae (maggots) of the New World Screwworm (NWS) that’s wreaking havoc among livestock along […] ...

The US government is poised to open an unusual new facility in Texas by the end of the year: a "fly factory" designed to combat a flesh-eating parasite threatening American cattle. This $8.5 ...

USDA launches an $8.5 million facility in South Texas to stop the deadly new world screwworm fly and protect U.S. livestock.

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