The U.S. Department of Agriculture is extremely worried about the arrival in the U.S. of a fly larvae called the New World screwworm that infests the living tissue of warm-blooded animals ...

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

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

Rather, Kaufman said the screwworm fly is a tropical fly that makes incursions further north. He said that to remember this fly is 1,000 miles south of Texas. "It's not the fly itself that is ...

Among farmers and ranchers, the New World screwworm fly ranks among the most reviled ... whose agency monitors the state’s livestock herds for a wide range of animal pests and diseases.

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 fly lays her eggs on an animal’s open wound or another area such as their eyes or mouth. The female can lay up to 300 eggs at a time, and any warm ...

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, which deposits its larvae into an open wound.

The New World screwworm fly was eradicated in the US in the mid-1960s, but a new sighting in southern Mexico has authorities in Texas on alert for a little insect that can do a lot of damage.