Screwworms Take a Bite Out of Texas’ Beef Industry (opens in new tab)

The return of the New World screwworm is threatening the U.S. cattle industry, especially in Texas. Typically, this would have been detected early on by agricultural monitoring and disease-detection programs, but those are now gone due to cuts made by the Trump Administration. The screwworm is a parasitic blowfly whose larvae burrow into living animals. […] The post appeared first on .