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This photo provided by the Texas Veterinary Medical Association shows veterinarian Russell Ueckert treating a cat at his clinic in Abilene, Texas, in August 2019. (Abel Amendare/Texas Veterinary Medical Association via AP)

What to know about protecting pets from the New World screwworm fly

New World screwworm cases in dogs in Texas and New Mexico are prompting warnings from veterinarians and humane societies that pet owners need to remain vigilant to protect their animals.
 
A mosquito feeds on a technician at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District on July 26, 2023, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Scratching that bug bite might feel good at first but science explains why it’s a bad idea

 
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Dyed fly pupae are seen as a sterile fly dispersal station is placed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to combat the spread of the New World screwworm fly on grounds of a ranch near La Pryor, Texas, Thursday, June 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Political blame game follows as screwworm parasite threatens cattle in Texas

 
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An adult New World screwworm fly sits in this undated photo. (Denise Bonilla/U.S. Department of Agriculture via AP)

A flesh-eating cattle parasite spreads beyond Texas as new screwworm cases are found

 
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An official with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension works at the State Operations Center during Texas' response to the New World Screwworm in Austin, Texas on Friday, June 5, 2026. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Texas governor wants to speed up work on a fly-breeding factory to fight a cattle parasite

 
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Britain sees boom in migrating hummingbird hawk-moths amid hot weather and food scarcity in Europe

The slight hum you can hear around these flowers is coming from wings beating too fast to see clearly. This is a hummingbird hawk-moth, a day-flying migrant moth that hovers in front of flowers while feeding on nectar.

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This image supplied by Australia's Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water shows, Madagascar hissing cockroaches and dubia cockroaches, seized from a commercial breeder at Bathurst, Australia, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water via AP)

Australian cockroach kingpin caught with 100,000 illegal insects in record bug bust

 
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An official with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension works at the State Operations Center during Texas' response to the New World Screwworm in Austin, Texas on Friday, June 5, 2026. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

What to know about the New World screwworm fly and its reappearance in the US

 
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An adult New World screwworm fly sits in this undated photo. (Denise Bonilla/U.S. Department of Agriculture via AP)

Screwworm fly detected in Texas decades after cattle threat was largely eradicated in US

 
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A hive of honeybees on display at the Vermont Beekeeping Supply booth at the annual Vermont Farm Show at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction, Vt., Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Andy Duback, File)

A diet of royal jelly isn’t the only thing that makes a queen bee

 

Michigan cities rethink ‘No Mow May’ as experts question pollinator benefits

 
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, center, watches as fly pupae are dyed and separated following a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the grand opening of a Domestic New World Screwworm Sterile Fly Production Facility to combat the northward spread of NWS and protect American livestock, in Edinburg, Texas, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

The US has a new center in Texas to disperse sterile screwworm flies to block a parasite it spawns

 
A crawfish crawls through apple snails after harvest Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, at a farm in Kaplan, La. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Giant snails and tiny insects threaten the South’s rice and crawfish farms

 

The outlook for 6 forest pests and diseases in Maine

 
Acrobats from Cirque du Soleil rehearse for the show entitled 'Ovo' at The Royal Albert Hall, in London, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Photos show Cirque du Soleil rehearsing for upcoming show ‘Ovo,’ on the life cycle of insects

 

Fighting bugs with bugs: How Maine’s Midcoast is defending its hemlocks

 
An Eastern Black Swallowtail caterpillar feeds on a fennel plant in Spring, Texas on Aug. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Give caterpillars a ‘soft landing’ under your trees. The ecosystem will thank you

 
A ranch worker drives cattle to a corral for inspection for New World screwworm at a ranch in Cintalapa, Chiapas, Mexico, July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos, file)

USDA rejects Texas ag department’s fly trap to prevent screwworm larvae from infecting cattle

 
Jacob Anthon demonstrates the use of an FDA-cleared device that uses a combination of airflow temperature, speed, and direction to kill lice and eggs at Lice Clinics of America in Sugar Land, Texas, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi)

Lice concerns rise as children return to school. Here’s what parents can do

 
This photo provided by researchers in September 2025 shows a Diptera Nematocera fly of the family Chironomidae (non-biting midges) trapped in a Cretaceous-era amber sample discovered in Ecuador. (Mónica Solórzano-Kraemer via AP)

Discovery of insects trapped in amber sheds light on ancient Amazon rainforest

 
In this photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a female Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito, also known as the southern house mosquito, sits on a person’s skin before taking a blood meal in 2022. (Lauren Bishop/CDC via AP)

West Nile virus cases running higher than normal, prompting health warnings

 

Palmer injured in warmup and out of Chelsea’s match at West Ham in Premier League

 
Cowboys push a cow out of its spot to a veterinarian inspection at a ranch that exports livestock to the U.S., in Zamora, northern Mexico, Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

The US plans to build a $750M fly factory in Texas to stop a flesh-eating cattle parasite

 
Asahi Yamauchi, 4, looks at a beetle and plays at an exhibition devoted to insects in Tokyo, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

Bugs are popular pets in nature-loving Japan, buzzing with lessons about ecology and species

 
Mosquitoes cling to the inside of a jar loaded with repellent during a test as part of a tour of the Center for Disease Control laboratory in Fort Collins, Colo., on April 4, 2024. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

How to humanely deal with pests without using cruel traps or harmful chemicals

 
Landis Taylor, Assistant Vice President of Marketing and Communications for the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation, watches fireflies as they illuminate a wooded area near the Woods Walk Trail on June 23, 2022, at Grandfather Mountain in Linville, N.C. (Allison Lee Isley/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP, File)

Fireflies are lighting up summer skies. But the glowing bugs are still on the decline

 
Palm trees adorn Parque Rodo in Montevideo, Uruguay, Tuesday, July 8, 2025, as thousands of palm trees in the South American country have been devoured by the red palm weevil since its unexplained arrival from Southeast Asia in 2022. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

Uruguay confronts a powerful new threat to its palm trees: A tiny red bug

 
Isaac Barnes works with his honeybee hives Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in Williamsport, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Bees have some ways to cope with a warming Earth, but researchers fear for their future

 
This 2007 image provided by Bugwood.org shows Colorado potato beetle eggs on a plant. (David Cappaert/Bugwood.org via AP)

Forget the calendar: This method reveals the ideal time to tackle garden pests

 
In this Jan. 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 a facility that breeds sterile flies in Pacora, Panama. (COPEG via AP)

US has reclosed its southern border after a flesh-eating parasite is seen further north in Mexico

 
In this Jan. 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 a facility that breeds sterile flies in Pacora, Panama. (COPEG via AP)

The US plans to begin breeding billions of flies to fight a pest. Here is how it will work

 
A woman tries to avoid a swarm of lovebugs on the summit of Mount Gyeyang in Incheon, South Korea, Monday, June 30, 2025. (Im Soon-shuck/Yonhap via AP)

‘Lovebugs’ return in swarms to South Korea and blanket a mountain peak

 
An adult New World screwworm fly sits at rest in this undated photo. (Denise Bonilla/U.S. Department of Agriculture via AP)

The US plans to open a fly factory in Texas as part of its fight against a flesh-eating parasite

 
This image provided by Ajay Narendra shows an Australian Bogong moth at the Ramshead Range of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales, Australia. (Ajay Narendra via AP)

Meet the bug that uses the stars to navigate hundreds of miles

 
Bugs fly as Germany's Alexander Zverev serves against Serbia's Novak Djokovic during their quarterfinal match of the French Tennis Open at the Roland-Garros stadium in Paris, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Buggin’ out: Little flies bother Djokovic and Zverev during their French Open quarterfinal

 
This May 19, 2019, image provided by The Nature Conservancy shows a blue-winged warbler. (Derek Rogers via AP)

How to turn down the volume and protect wildlife in your yard and garden

 
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