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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz co-introduced a bill to build an American facility that would curb the reproduction of ...

In parts of Central America, illegal ranching on protected lands has become a front for drug trafficking and money laundering ...

Yesterday afternoon, Secretary Rollins held a call with her counterpart in Mexico, Secretary Berdegue, to discuss the ongoing ...

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

Last week, the United States halted all cattle trade with Mexico to stop the spread of a parasitic flesh-eating fly known as ...