Texas Agriculture Department debuts new Swormlure traps, Ivermectin feed additives and a cattle vaccine to combat New World ...

The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) is rolling out a high-tech weapon in the fight against the New World Screwworm (NWS ...

Experts, Texas ranchers preparing for the unknown as a destructive pest that eats on the living tissue of mammals makes its ...

The Tick Riders have been patrolling the southern U.S. border for more than 100 years. Their mission has been protecting U.S. cattle from the cattle fever tick, a troublesome parasite that causes ...

The Texas Department of Agriculture continues to lead the fight against the threat of the New World Screwworm (NWS) by ...

The parasitic fly that attacks warm-blooded animals was eliminated from the United States in the 1960s, but it’s creeping ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Saturday that she will have a major announcement next week in the battle against ...

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - The Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) has launched a website to help ...

Alberto Banuet of Mexico was a keynote speaker on the New World Screwworm at the Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course this week ...

Good tick and fly control is also crucial to reducing the bite wounds that could serve as entry points for screwworm. This ...

The New World Screwworm has sharp mouth hooks, allowing them to burrow deep into an animal's flesh. New World Screwworms can infest livestock, pets, wildlife, birds and in rare cases, people.

The New World Screwworm is a parasitic fly, about the size of a common housefly. They have orange eyes, a metallic blue or green body and three dark stripes along their backs, according to the ...