The US has fought to keep the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly whose larvae "eat animals alive," out of North America ...

Decades of screwworm vigilance have been undone in just two years. You only have to glance at a map to understand why the ...

A small, pale maggot about a half-inch long could cost New Mexico cattle ranchers greatly if it gets back into the country. One of the state's senators introduced new legislation to combat the New ...

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins provided an update on the USDA’s ongoing partnership with Mexico to combat the New World ...

Rollins also announced the USDA invested $21 million in renovating an existing fruit fly production facility in Metapa, ...

The parasite has devastated thousands south of the U.S. A recent northward surge in cases triggered emergency measures from ...

EAST TEXAS (KLTV) - The screwworm, a pest likely remembered only by our grandparents, is making headlines again. With a proper name of New World Screwworm and scientifically known as Cochliomyia ...

AgriLife Extension will host a webinar on New World screwworm on June 9 to provide more information to agricultural producers and the public.

USDA will invest $21 million to expand a Mexico facility, aiming to double sterile fly production and strengthen efforts to ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Cattle farmers in Texas are sounding the alarm over an agricultural pest inching its way toward the U.S., the New World screwworm. One Bryan rancher says the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Tennessee State Veterinarian is warning livestock owners to keep an eye out for their animals after the New World Screwworm, or NWS, was detected off the border of ...

A New World screwworm (NWS) outbreak in Mexico has raised alarms at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The impact on ...