U.S. to Dump Billions of Flies From Planes to Fight ‘Man-Eater’ Maggots

The US Department of Agriculture declared war on a magot that eats a meat infestral Wild life, livestock, pets and rarely people. War strategy? Throwing radically sterilized flies of billions of sterilized billions on Mexico and Texas.

Using this tested and true biological control technique, USDA aims to seal the new World Screwworm (NWS) flight, the larvae of tropical parasites. The scientific name of this invasive pest Cochliomyia Hominivoraxliterally means “eating man” in his true sense. Flies target hot bloody animals, put eggs close to open wounds and mucous membranes Texas Farm Bureau. When the eggs are hatched, Maggots deepen and cause painful, potentially fatal wounds deepening the living texture of the host. If NWS flies, if spreads in the United States, it can miss the livestock industry, chasing wild animals and creates an important risk for domestic animals and human health.

“After two weeks in a thousand kennels,” President of the American Veterinary Medicine Association Michael Bailey, tell Associated Press.

To relieve this pest, USDA scientists are sterilized by radiation before adult male NWS flies and free from aircraft. These flyers will not receive the eggs and the eggs they produce, thereby reduces the number of maggots and cause the population to die over time. This approach can be more environmentally friendly and counter-effect than pesticides, worked in the past.

“The United States has previously defeated NWS and we will do it again,” said USDA Secretary Brooke. In 1962-1974, the United States and Mexico released more than 94 billion sterile flies to eliminate the pest for USDA. Thanks to the sterile floating object under the 2000s, Panama was under Panama, sometimes, as if each other continued to occur be shot Florida buttons in 2017.

“This is a pretty good technology”, “Edvin Burgess, Associate Professor at the University of Florida, who studied parasites in livestock, professor, tell Associated Press. “It’s always great in terms of translating science to solve a great problem.”

Over the past few years, NWS has expanded the population in the southern US. Bureau of America. The latest in Mexico, Oaxaca and Veracruz, a total of 700 miles (1.127 km) from the southern border (1.127 kilometers), US officials on May 11, wanted to suspend the import of cattle, horse and bison.

Rolls on June 18 declared Development of $ 8.5 million NWS, the development of this pest in addition to the aggressive plan to re-enter a flight plant located in South Texas, must be completed by the end of the year until the end of the year. In Panama and Mexico, the internal sterile flight producing the already operating current opportunities can increase the production of up to 300 million flows per week. USDA also includes an additional 60-100 million sterile NWS flies per week to stop the spread, Metapa invested $ 21 million in the repair of a flight factory available in Mexico. On the production of Panama, it will be released in Mexico at least 160 million vehicles and in Panama in Panama and USA.

This NWS Fly showed the results of the first weeks of the attack strategy. USDA, because of a statement, USDA, for a statement, because of a statement of more than 100 million sterile NWS per week, because in May released June 30 Monday. The agency said in the parasitic NWS infections in Mexico or in the last eight weeks did not see a prominent increase in any north of this pest. According to these findings, USDA decided to gradually reopen the southern border ports to the cattle trade, which will begin on July 7.

These are good signs that officials have resumed these pest control. As the planet continues to warm up, more invasive insects and parasites will creep north of the tropics, the United States threatens agriculture, biodiversity and public health. Thus, sterile flying livestock and distribution programs can be increasingly handy. Burgess claims that officials should keep flying factories open after neutralizing the NWS threat. “Something we think is, we can have no control and victory and raise the victory to the back again,” he said.