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Two of Texas’s Deadliest Pests Are Bound to Clash. Will Anybody Win?
Two of Texas’s most troublesome invasive species have much in common. They reproduce alarmingly fast, send shudders down the spines of Texas ranchers, and can traverse similar distances (about twelve miles a day). One is the feral hog, capable of outsmarting, outrunning, and outbreeding attempts at its eradication. The other, if presented a pinprick-size opportunity, would eat a live feral hog from the inside out.The New World screwworm recently returned to Texas, sixty years after the state first fended off the orange-eyed threat. More than thirty cases have been recorded since the confirmed infection of a calf in tiny La Pryor last month. The flying pest inflicts otherworldly horror. It lays its eggs in wounds as tiny as those created by tick bites, and its…The post Two of Texas’s Deadliest Pests Are Bound to Clash. Will Anybody Win? appeared first on Texas Monthly.