The worm is back — tracking it with facts, not fear.
🐦 Join the X CommunityEnter a restaurant chain or major grocer to see a neutral summary of its publicly reported beef sourcing, with a source link and a map of any named facilities relative to detections. General context only — not a safety assessment. ~70 brands loaded (Taco Bell, Texas Roadhouse, H-E-B, Walmart, Whole Foods, and more).
To suppress the outbreak, USDA releases millions of radiation-sterilized screwworm flies by air (the "sterile insect technique"). Release & survey aircraft fly repetitive low grid patterns. This map live-scans community ADS-B (airplanes.live) for aircraft below ~8,500 ft over South/Central Texas, draws their trails, and auto-flags survey-style grid patterns. Filter between grid-only, maybe-relevant, and all low aircraft; click any plane to share it. Refreshes ~every 30s.
⚠️ Shows low-flying aircraft (crop-dusters, training, medical, charter, survey, etc.) — most unrelated to screwworm operations, none officially confirmed. Pattern detection is a heuristic. See Screwworm.gov.
Females lay eggs at the edge of a wound; larvae (the "screwworms") burrow into living tissue, then drop to the soil to pupate and emerge as adult flies. Recognizing it early and reporting it is key.
Diagram is illustrative. For official identification photos, see the USDA APHIS Story Map.
Summarized from Texas Animal Health Commission and USDA APHIS public statements.
Publicly known beef processors near the region (contextual reference only). Inclusion does not imply any facility is connected to the current situation.