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Iirc there is a massive breeding factory in Central America that breeds sterile flies to help decrease the fly population. It works great, they produce tens of millions of these sterile, sexy (to other flies) bugs every year. The other flies fuck them and they never produce offspring.

So the Trump admin stopped funding them because "hurr durr why are we funding a fly bordello in panama". Now they're producing like 10% of what they were before

So: voíla, flesh eating flies and now we have to start funding the lab again AND stop an invasive species that's here now.

"When it comes to safeguarding..."

Vulnerable people, right?

"... Texas' $15 billion cattle industry, we need to focus on action rather than words. That's why I instructed my Biosecurity team to develop an effective screwworm lure," Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in the announcement."

This is one of those early consequences of Mr. Musk's DOGE.

Some of that USAID money was for keeping those flies from spreading further north than Panama. The flies only mate once, so interrupting that was the easiest way to cap the spread. Apparently we've been continuously shipping crates of neutered males into the region for the last half century. Florida had a whole production line for it. They used warmed meat slurry to incubate the larva, then irradiated the adolescents into infertility.

Oh George, not the livestock

invasion of flesh eating flies

Another reason to avoid the USA added to the list

Go forth my minions!

Big Ivermectin has really taken control. Perhaps someday soon we'll be putting it into the water supply using retired fluoride infrastructure.