Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who typically patrol the southern border to protect cattle from fever tick, also now will serve as the first line of defense against screwworm.

During Friday's press conference, Gov. Abbott and Sec. Rollins announced a $750 million investment to combat the New World screwworm threat in the state.

The facility will have the capacity to produce 300 million sterile screwworm flies per week, tripling the current capacity to ...

Federal and Texas leaders have announced an unprecedented $850 million plan, including a new sterile fly facility in Edinburg to stop New world screwworm.

The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts ...

Texas leaders are expected to discuss plans to fight the New World screwworm during a Friday press conference in Austin.

Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins held a joint news conference Friday to announce new ...

NWS is a devastating pest, the USDA said. When NWS fly larvae (maggots) burrow into the flesh of a living animal, they cause ...

The plan signals increasing worries about the risk of screwworm, a parasitic fly that eats livestock and wildlife alive, to ...

In a joint press conference with Governor Greg Abbott at the Texas State Capital in Austin, United States Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins said, “We are doing everything we can to stop it” ...

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who typically patrol the southern border to protect cattle from fever tick, ...