US is now scrambling to use aerial bombs of sterilized flies to halt the spread.
  • @nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    31•13 days ago

    Once beckoned, females lay up to 400 eggs at a time. Within about a day, ravenous flesh-eating larvae erupt, which both look and act like literal screws. They viciously and relentlessly bore and twist into their victim, feasting on the living flesh for about seven days. The result is a gaping ulcer writhing with maggots, which attracts yet more adult female screwworms that can lay hundreds more eggs, deepening the putrid, festering lesion. The infection, called myiasis, is intensely painful and life-threatening. Anyone who falls victim to screwworms is figuratively—well, you know.

    • DemeEnglish
      15•13 days ago

      So was the video linked at the end. I knew I would regret clicking the link and I still did it. Morbid curiosity is a bitch.

    • Aatube
      1•13 days ago

      The headline not, but the article definitely.

        • Aatube
          3•13 days ago

          Our biggest threat right now is a bunch of worms, who are somehow all-powerful and as strong as a butcher’s drill and against which the Department of Defense has to mobilize. Not China, not Russia, not Mexico, not Canada, worms.

  • @chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18•13 days ago

    Stuff like getting rid of these things makes so much sense, I don’t understand how some people can think human cooperation isn’t important.

  • @Anomalocaris@lemm.eeEnglish
    15•13 days ago

    oh boy, can’t wait for the US government to do absolutely nothing about it, then blame minorities for it

  • Rymrgand's Daughter English
    3•13 days ago

    Yeah well maybe if fucking republicans hadn’t fucked up everything to stop them this wouldn’t be happening. The only good thing is this will hit red states first