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The government plans to drop a horde of flies over Texas border. Here's why.
By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United ...
New World screwworm reports halt cattle shipments from Mexico. How much danger do the parasites pose to humans?
The reemergence of the New World screwworm, which poses significant health risks for livestock, has prompted the Department ...
The Journal1mon
Considerations for producers when it comes to fly, insect control
Fly and insect control can lead to healthier cattle and more money in producer's pockets. ... so that’s going to impact both dairy cattle and also our cow-calf operations,” Cammack said.
Flesh-eating pests are coming. US plans to counter them by releasing millions of flies from planes
The US government is planning to carry out a shocking plan in which they will take millions of sterile New World screwworm ...
The US has a plan to breed millions of flies and drop them from planes. Here’s why
Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized ...
Scientific American25d
Flesh-Eating ‘Screwworm’ Parasites Are Headed to the U.S.
Screwworm parasites primarily infect livestock, but human cases have risen in Central America after the pests escaped containment ...
San Antonio Express-News6mon
Why a parasitic fly in Mexico is a threat to Texas livestock
The flies were eliminated from the U.S. in 1966 and the sterile insect technique was used to continue eradicating them further south, with the effort reaching southern Mexico by the 1980s ...