Following rumors of an insect being found in Missouri that is deadly to animals, the Missouri Department of Agriculture ...

After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the restrictions on livestock imports due to the troubling northward spread of ...

Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz hope to fund an operation to kill the parasitic fly before too much damage is done.

U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann said Congress is working to fund the USDA's sterile insect technique in response to a New World ...

The New World Screwworm was first detected in a cow in southern Mexico in November. Since then, officials from the U.S. and Mexico have worked to contain the deadly fly larvae.

The country has already closed the southern border to cattle imports for the next few weeks to try and get ahead of the issue.

When the fly lays its eggs in open wounds, the larvae eat the flesh of animals. Pets and livestock are particularly ...

The screwworm is getting closer to invading Texas and the United States and it's raising alarms across the state and nation, ...