
By Brooke Mallory
The U.S. government has announced its intention to construct an $8.5 million fly-breeding facility near the U.S.–Mexico border as part of a strategic effort to combat the spread of a parasitic threat to livestock.
The facility, which will be established at Moore Air Base in Texas, will produce millions of “sterile male New World screwworm flies.”
These sterile males will be released into the wild, where they will mate with wild females, thereby curbing reproduction and preventing the emergence of flesh-eating larvae, according to the Associated Press.
Female New World screwworm flies deposit their eggs in open wounds of animals. Upon hatching, the larvae, commonly referred to as maggots, burrow into the host’s tissue — causing severe and potentially fatal damage, the U.S. Department of Agriculture explained.
The Texas facility would be only the second of its kind in the Western Hemisphere…
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