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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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