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.
It happened while Biden was president, though. Like 2022|23.
I need to know who to blame, can I get a source?
I don’t know if I’m going mad or the Internet has been scrubbed clean of it, but I can’t find a source anywhere on my 2023 claim, now. It was an article I’d thought I read pretty recently.
There was a fairly recent article posted on Lemmy somewhere saying they had broken through, but I don’t remember it including a “why”