State of Emergency Over Flesh-Eating Screwworm Infestation Declared in Florida

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@fuzzyfungus

And that means we’ll potentially need to scale up eradication considerably; at a time when odds are pretty good that ‘gummint wastocrats can’t do anything right’ types will merrily ignore the fact that they have, in fact, already solved this problem once; which raises the possibility of some half-assed not-nearly-as-good-and-only-slightly-cheaper operation.

Flesh-Eating Screwworms Infect Florida Keys Deer Population

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Now several agencies are fighting back using the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), which works by releasing a large number of sterile screwworms into the wild with the intent of decreasing the insect population.