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
When you are not up to date on the topic, it sounds like a far-fetched dystopian alternate timeline.
I sent them a message to see if they’d update it. Just out of curiosity.
Europe’s understanding of the geography outside its tiny landmass is utterly laughable.
what make you think I have good understanding of Europe and geography?
“Tiny landmass”? Tell me you have no idea of geography without telling me you have no idea of geography.
Second smallest continent, behind even Antarctica.
It’s tiny my dude.
I mean let’s be honest, they shouldn’t get to call themselves a continent even.
“Smallest Continent” is like saying “Most Giant Midget.” It means nothing. That’s also only if you use the 7 continent model. Which is taught in Mostly English Speaking parts of the world as well as SE Asia and China. There’s two 6 continent models, the combined Eurasia Model which is taught in Russia, Eastern Europe and the Balkan States. Then There’s the combined Americas model Taught in Greece, many Romance language countries and Latin America. Then There’s The 5 Continent model which is Physiographic Regions, so physically distinct regions independent of Political boundaries and the 4 continent model which is divided by continuous land mass, so Afro-Eurasia, Combined Americas, Australia and Antarctica. The 6 model system is represented in the rings of the Olympic flag that depicts the 5 inhabited continents of the combined America Model but excludes Antarctica because Penguins are shit at Archery. TMYN
This is real 5’11" energy bud.
Rhode Island is tiny, Europe is not
Rhode Island isn’t a landmass. It’s a political division. Europe is large for everything but continents. But it’s a moderately sized peninsula on the Eurasian continent.
Nobody is claiming it’s small like Luxembourg, we’re saying its small like India (yes I know its 3x the size of india)