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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to drop millions of flies over Texas and Mexico, in an effort to ...
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 poses a serious threat to the beef industry, wildlife, and even household ...
Texas officials and organizations reacted positively to the announcement of a sterile fly dispersal facility coming to South ...
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 ...
According to experts from Texas A&M, the New World screwworm is a tropical, parasitic fly native to the Western Hemisphere.
Historically, the screwworm was a big problem in several areas of the southern U.S. prior to its eradication in the 1960s.
The New World screwworm, eradicated in the United States in the 1960s, could again pose a threat to Texas livestock, the beef ...