KXAN's Avery Travis and Erica Brennes sit down with Dr. Christine Navarre with the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine and AG Center, who talks about the growing threat of screwworms after one was ...

Texas health officials are keeping an eye on a tiny invader that could severely damage the state's cattle industry.

The New World Screwworm was recently detected in Mexico, and the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife is asking people in South Texas to watch out for animals affected by the screwworms. The ...

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller believes the USDA closed imports prematurely. He says the ban is hindering an ...

Look, I know a thing or two about screwworms. I was about eleven years old when the United States eradicated the New World Screwworm. Before then, screwworms were a devastating problem for ranchers.

Where are New World Screwworms found? New World Screwworms are endemic in Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and countries in South America. The USDA says that cases of the parasite, however ...

The New World Screwworm is a larva or maggot of the New World Screwworm fly, which lays eggs in a wound or live tissue like ...

Well, not yet in Texas. But a cow in Chiapas, Mexico near the Guatemalan border was recently detected with maggots of the New World Screwworms (NWS). No source says these flies/maggots are any ...

Diptera.ai believes that the key to culling disease-carrying mosquito populations is by unleashing carefully sorted, ...

The New World Screwworm was recently detected in Mexico, and the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife is asking people in South Texas to watch out for animals affected by the screwworms.