By releasing sterile male screwworm flies into the environment, we broke the reproduction cycle and wiped out the problem in the United States. Recently, only one cow of thousands that were ...

The Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Screwworm, known as COPEG, operates a sterile fly production plant in Pacora, where millions of sterile flies are raised ...

The New World screwworm poses a serious threat to Indian livestock, causing severe tissue damage and economic losses.

Mexico made a first shipment of sterile parasitic flies to Uruguay to help combat the cattle “screw worm” or Cochliomyia hominivorax, an insect whose larvae or maggots eat living tissue ...

Although the screwworm has been eliminated from the United States ... documents as a reference for decision-making by national authorities in the use of the sterile insect technique as part of an area ...

APHIS is modifying its strategy to combat the new world screw worm (NWS) by shifting sterile fly dispersal efforts to the northernmost ...

The screwworm is eliminated by dropping sterile male flies from airplanes over large areas. Female screwworm flies mate only once in their lifetime, so the loads of sterile male flies caused the ...

CHICAGO, Feb 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture will not restrict cattle imports from Mexico after another discovery of a damaging pest called New World screwworm in a cow south of ...

According to APHIS, New World screwworm (NWS) is a devastating pest. When NWS fly larvae (maggots) burrow into the flesh of a living animal, they cause serious, often deadly damage to the animal.

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