BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) -There has been an uptick in New World screwworm cases in the past few weeks, and experts say the heat Texas experienced this summer helped suppress fly reproduction.
“Now that we’ve started to basically break down into those cooler temps, which is anything into the 80s, 70s, the numbers have gone up. So that’s part of what we’re seeing now. So as of this morning, there are technically I think it’s 42 or 43 active cases at this moment. That takes our total to 113 animal infestations,” Sonja Swiger, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension livestock entomologist, said.
Swiger said not all the cases are in Texas. Swiger said many southern counties in New Mexico are showing infestations as well…