Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently issued a statewide disaster declaration to "better equip the Texas New World Screwworm Response Team to prevent the potential spread of the NWS fly into Texas." ...

A male Sambar deer was rescued from Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) after it was found trapped in a wire snare, bleeding ...

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service shifted its 100 million per week sterile fly dispersal efforts to stop ...

Texas issued a disaster declaration over a flesh-eating fly that's not yet been detected in the state. But if it does make it ...

The United States Department of Agriculture is shifting its sterile New World screwworm fly releases to focus along the ...

The United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announces a shift in New World screwworm sterile fly dispersal efforts into Texas to stop the northern spread ...

Abbott issued a statewide disaster declaration to strengthen Texas' response against NWS flies, a deadly livestock pest advancing north through Mexico.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide disaster declaration to prevent New World screwworm fly from spreading from Mexico ...

New world screwworm is a parasitic fly. Unlike most flies that lay eggs on dead tissue, this one lays its eggs in open wounds ...

Wait and watch. That is about all ranchers, wildlife managers and hunters can do right now as flies producing maggots called the New World Screwworm inch their way toward the […] ...

The New World screwworm flies lay their eggs in wounds, noses, ears, eyes or mouths. Their eggs develop into parasitic larvae ...

The New World screwworm is getting dangerously close to the U.S., public health officials warn. If left untreated, a ...