Arizona's agriculture and animal health experts are preparing against potential cases of New World Screwworm, a parasitic fly detected in Mexico.

Learn the warning signs of New World screwworm in cats and dogs and when to call a vet; early care can prevent fatal ...

State health officials have issued a health advisory warning about a rare and previously eradicated parasite that can burrow itself into the flesh of humans and animals.

The Texas Mexfly quarantines have been a prime example of the kinds of temporary measures that government officials can take ...

A threat to American livestock – the New World Screwworm (NWS) fly, which has been considered eradicated from the country since 1966 — has re-emerged as a potential danger following an outbreak in ...

The New World screwworm fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax) is a type of blowfly whose larvae infest their host externally and feed on body tissue. Photo: Getty Images/Dinar Bud/Happy Sloth (Kreis) The New ...

Invasive spotted wing drosophila has been documented for the first time in the Yakama Nation’s huckleberry fields. This article explores how tribal students are studying the pest, the cultural ...

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a horror movie, ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a ...

In this January 2024 photo provided by the Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Cattle Screwworms (COPEG), a worker drops New World screwworm fly larvae into a tray at ...