A flesh-eating parasitic fly has spread north through Mexico to within a few hundred miles of the U.S. southern border. The New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) lays its eggs in open wounds ...
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The New World screwworm, a parasitic fly, has been eradicated from the U.S. for over 60 years. But in recent months, it has been detected as close as 70 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. As a kid ...
A U.S.-based facility dedicated to releasing sterile screwworm flies began operations Monday in Texas, marking a major step in efforts to prevent the flesh-eating parasite from crossing the Mexican ...
Gov. Greg Abbott looks on as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins speaks at a ribbon cutting event for the grand opening of a Domestic New World Screwworm sterile fly dispersal facility in ...
The USDA announced it has completed a sterile fly dispersal facility in Edinburg, Texas, to bolster preparedness against new world screwworm. “This sterile fly dispersal facility was a high priority ...
Damming the Guadalupe River in the Hill Country west of New Braunfels began in the 1960s. A new lake would be called Canyon Lake. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department inland fisheries biologists ...