The move comes as the New World Screwworm fly larvae continues to cause chaos as it infiltrates the US beef industry, affecting wider wildlife, pets and, in rare cases, humans.
According to scientists, the new batches of male sterilised maggots will be dumped over the South American nation and the US state of Texas in a bid to eradicate the vicious variety of flesh-eating larvae.
The US Department of Agriculture is said the male flies, which measure slightly larger than the average housefly, will be sterilised with radiation before being released.
The strategy, set out by scientists, will force the female screwworms to breed with the newly sterilised males.
The flesh-eating variety of the screwworm maggots were eradicated from the US in 1966, but the creatures appear to me making a comeback.
Mexico is not “South American.” Most of it isn’t even “Central American.” The person who wrote this needs some geography lessons.
This article also makes this sound like a brand new endeavor, as if this hasn’t been an ongoing project for 70 years now
Update that no one will likely see but I said I messaged them so I figured I’d say the result. They updated the article to replace all instances of South America with North America.
(Message was sent via the authors personal website, as I dont use X) https://www.danielledewolfe.com/
Good for them.
The article doesn’t mention why this is suddenly an issue. They used to have a narrow choke point around Panama where they did this routinely to keep these things from ever getting into the US, but that was cut as part of the “government efficiency” fiasco, so now it’s a widespread, growing, problem. Really the perfect example of why wildly cutting government spending without thought is not an ‘efficient’ approach to reducing spending.
There is also a picture of a screw-worm infected dog in the article, if you want to see what your republican sponsored future will be
It’s worth noting that the current outbreak that’s occurring north of Panama started prior to DOGE doing its bullshit. Apparently it began in 2022.
Worth noting that people still have no idea how much damage Trump and Republicans did the first go around.
I’m not saying they didn’t do damage, but did they cut funding for this? There doesn’t seem to be any evidence of that. There was an outbreak in Florida in 2016 before the 2022 outbreak
No concrete reason for the northward spread has been given, and Dr. Chancey said it is likely “multifactorial.” She noted that surveillance of NWS is limited in hard-to-reach areas across Central America, and livestock often are transported through unmonitored or insufficient checkpoints.
I’m not talking about who did what.
I’m talking about people who don’t know what damage was done and the extent.
If they knew, and actually cared, things would not be as bad and getting worse.
This is an example of how bad they screwed things up this time!
I meant this is an example of how bad they screwed things up last time!
I meant I am not talking about who did what, but this is an example of what could happen because they screwed things up!
Never seen mexico referred as south america before
Anyone wanna take bets on Trump cancelling the program to “save the budget”?
Depends on how he hears about it. If somebody brings it up as being beneficial to everybody, he’ll want to axe it, but if he just hears that we’re dumping tons of gross bugs on Mexico, he’ll probably be on board.
I am expecting the Trump Regime to cancel this program, and for EVERYONE to experience the consequences.
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The worm in Kennedy’s brain will axe it for sure
Hey that’s how I know about screw worms too
In a plot twist, the trump administration forgets to sterilize the flies before releasing them. And now they’ve accelerated the incursion into the US
You joke, but there was some dude in Florida (I think) who was contracted to do this with fruit flies and he started dropping healthy ones to make sure the program never ended.
Source; I can’t be bothered to look it up, trust me bro.
he can also extend his time in between appointments to allow the fruit flies to recover to achieve the same results. fruit flies breed pretty fast. thats why they have to do it to mosquitos(mosquitos might be harder since theres multiple species that can spread different diseases) and screworms so frequently, they lay a ton of eggs at once.
Mexico
South American nation
Wat
Don’t you know, only USA is true north America. Canada is their “younger brother” 🤣
America is Canada’s gut.
yeah. full of shit.
And Florida is the nipple?
Limp dick, actually.
I’m surprised they’re still doing it. I would have assumed the administration threw a fit about having Mexico pay for it instead.
I was gonna share that here if no one haven’t
