With fly season approaching, now is the time to evaluate and refine your fly management plan for 2025. “If your 2024 control efforts underperformed, consider adjusting your approach,” says David ...

"Horn fly abundance should be monitored weekly throughout fly season. Monitoring is best achieved by counting flies on the head, shoulders and back of 10 to 15 cattle. Whole body counts are the most ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A cattle ban placed on the southern border has prompted dozens of U.S. representatives to introduce a bill that would prevent a similar suspension from happening again. U.S.

The ranch real estate experts at James Bigley Ranches explain how to reduce cattle flies on your ranch with practical ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) -Springtime and recent rains seem to have brought about the horn fly on cattle in our area. The name be misleading as they congregate on cattle without horns. Introduced to the U.S ...

The first center for dispersing sterile screwworm flies from U.S. soil in decades opened Monday in Texas, part of a larger effort to keep the flesh-eating parasite they spawn from crossing the Mexican ...

The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots in Mexico from crossing the border and damaging ...

New World Screwworms plagued American cattle through the mid-twentieth century. Their larvae burrow into the skin of cattle and other mammals, causing infection, disease and death – and they are ...

The annual Cow/Calf Days Tour includes talks on cattle pests like liver flukes, screwworms and longhorned ticks, all something to keep on your radar. The tour continues across Minnesota this month.

The nation’s top cattle industry leader sounded the alarm Tuesday that a flesh-eating fly infestation advancing through Mexico remains a dire threat to U.S. ranchers, even as the Trump administration ...

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 ...