Mexico will resume cattle exports to the United States starting this week, after the detection of screwworm parasites ...

The New World screwworm, so named because it can burrow into an open wound like a screw driving into wood, is the larvae of an invasive fly ... concerns that an infestation could happen in ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture banned Mexican cattle imports after a screwworm was found on a cow near the Mexican-Guatemala border. That discovery has led Texas officials to warn the public to ...

Some of the larvae were described as being of an unidentified blue fly; these are almost certainly very early references to myiasis caused by the New World screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel ...

Cattle and bison imports from Mexico are scheduled to resume soon, according to a recent announcement by the United States ...

Nature is full of impostors, and many of them are found in the insect world. Certain species, such as the bee fly or the ant ...

(MENAFN- Newsroom Panama) Panama, while officially declared screwworm-free, still faces ongoing challenges with screwworm infestations ... of sterile male screwworm flies to disrupt the population.

Give a screwworm ... can lead to an infestation if the worms are present in the environment,” he says. “It’s visually disturbing and has a very distinctive foul odor.” Flies can lay ...

There are a lot of threats to Texas’ white-tailed deer population including Chronic Wasting Disease and the occasional ...

Screwworm infestations occur when a female ... that dig into the animal and feed on living flesh. The larvae of the New World screwworm fly eat healthy tissue of mammals, primarily affecting ...

Bovine hypodermosis, commonly known as warble fly infestation, is a parasitic disease affecting cattle, caused by the larvae of flies from the genus Hypoderma. These larvae develop under the skin ...