The return of the flesh-eating screwworm fly in Texas has ranchers and government agencies scrambling to contain what could ...

The flesh-eating fly larvae, which have been detected in Mexico, were declared eradicated from Texas in the 1960s.

HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) — The construction of a $3 billion new oil refinery on the South Texas border near expanding SpaceX and under construction LNG facility, as well as new border wall ...

A 45-minute drive down a narrow highway separates one of America’s poorest border cities from the heart of Elon Musk’s SpaceX empire. A lot has changed in Brownsville, Texas, since the private ...

This article is co-published with Big Bend Sentinel and ProPublica as part of an initiative to report on state and federal efforts to restrict local control. When Tommy Fisher set out to build a ...

Close-up of an adult New World screwworm fly. New World screwworm flies are about the size of a common housefly or slightly larger. They have orange eyes, a metallic blue or green body, and three dark ...

A flesh-eating fly has been detected 25 miles from the Texas-Mexico border — the closest New World screwworm case to the U.S. since the 1960s.