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U.S. will build sterile fly factory in Texas to stop screwworm from devastating livestock industry
Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who typically patrol the southern border to protect cattle from fever tick, ...
Texas leaders are expected to discuss plans to fight the New World screwworm during a Friday press conference in Austin.
The facility will have the capacity to produce 300 million sterile screwworm flies per week, tripling the current capacity to ...
NWS is a devastating pest, the USDA said. When NWS fly larvae (maggots) burrow into the flesh of a living animal, they cause ...
It was, in part, to keep the New World Screwworm from entering the U.S. It’s a tiny parasitic fly but it could have ...
The parasitic fly that attacks warm-blooded animals was eliminated from the United States in the 1960s, but it’s creeping ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend up to $750 million to build a sterile fly production facility in Texas to fight ...
On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins publicly addressed “plans to fight ...
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