US to breed billions of flies and dump them out of aircraft in bid to fight flesh-eating maggot -- The Guardian

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/02/new-world-screwworm-fly-flesh-eating-maggot

Program mirrors earlier successful mission to fight new world screwworm fly, whose larvae can infest living tissue

A worker drops new qorld screwworm fly larvae into a tray at a facility that breeds sterile flies in Pacora, Panama, in 2021. Photograph: COPEG via AP

Wonder if these are related to RFK Jr.'s worm. If he lost that his IQ would go even lower.

The US government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot.

That sounds like the plot of a horror movie, but it is part of the government’s plans for protecting the US from a bug that could devastate its beef industry, decimate wildlife and even kill household pets. This weird science has worked well before.

“It’s an exceptionally good technology,” said Edwin Burgess, an assistant professor at the University of Florida who studies parasites in animals, particularly livestock. “It’s an all-time great in terms of translating science to solve some kind of large problem.”
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The targeted pest is the flesh-eating larva of the new world screwworm fly. The US Department of Agriculture plans to ramp up the breeding and distribution of adult male flies – sterilizing them with radiation before releasing them. They mate with females in the wild, and the eggs laid by the female aren’t fertilized and don’t hatch. There are fewer larvae, and, over time, the fly population dies out.

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[riversedge]

1. Science will save us.

[markodochartaigh]

2. Well,

I read the whole article but I still don't understand how this will help fight Trump. Although I do like the characterization of him as a "flesh-eating maggot."