tl;Dr
screwworms are a species of fly that lays eggs in open wounds or orifices, after which the larvae will feed on the hatching site, typically causing more screwworms to lay eggs. they were mostly eradicated via releasing millions of irradiated, sterile males into their population, a thing we still do every month, but for whatever reason, they broke through the biological barrier keeping them back and have made it all the way to Mexico.
the infection of eggs and larvae is incredibly painful and horrifying, and while humans are much less likely to be affected, the agriculture sector will take an enormous hit to their livestocks if it keeps spreading.
Ah. Well another once in a lifetime event hits us.
This thing?
This makes me glad that I immediately hunt down any fly I find in my home until it is dead. I had a sudden fly infestation years ago and have never been lazy about even just one fly in my home since.
It is the reason I have one of those electric swatters. The fuckers get near my sink, I just start lazily waving the swatter over the area and get them all.
Since you’re doing this in your kitchen, it may behoove you to know that the zippers actually explode the flies into bits, which will then obviously be dispersed all over your kitchen counters, dishes, food, etc. Just a thought.
Yum, I guess. My sink is pretty far from food prep, and my body is in the way, so hopefully my insect intake is only going to be coming from poorly regulated peanut butter factories.
Good thing we only have the best and brightest leading the health department and USDA right now.
So they were pushed back to South America once, why can’t they be pushed back again? How’d they get past Panama if there’s a sterile fly production/release facility there?
I did not need to see that deer picture. Lmao
You mean this photo? Is this the deer photo you were referring to? Please confirm
That’s definitely a dead deer.
What do you call a deer that can’t see
If it’s a female, no eye deer. If it’s a male, buck if I know.
Damn you called my dad joke. What do you call a deer that can’t see and can’t move?
Still no eye deer.
Damn, what about a deer that can’t see, can’t move, and can’t reproduce?
Damn, that’s a good one
I don’t know, what do you call a deer that can’t see?
You know you can just delete your comment right?
That deer probably wished for death long before it actually died.
Probably.
Send them to Mar-A-Lago please.
Time to make more cuts in disaster relief and disease control.
I immediately knew the author of this piece. If you ever need a dose of revulsion and nausea, I highly recommend any of Beth Mole’s articles on parasites, worms and other nightmares.
See, this is a thing that I do not want (and have not even read the article in the linked post due to this). However, I gotta say that your recommendation has me intrigued (over recent years, I have been trying to be more mindful of who is writing the various bits of non-fiction that I enjoy (especially journalists), so your mentioning this person’s name sticks out to me)
Any good links?
Probably another area where the government will save money to finance more millionaires tax breaks.
Trump will get right on that. 🤦🏻♂️
Look, all you need to do is fill the hole where they burrow into you with Vaseline and cover it with duct tape for a couple days. Except for your pets, of course. For them you have to squeeze it like a zit and when you can see the face, grab it with a pair of pliers and slowly…gently…extract it.
Or, maybe, like, have a functioning government.
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I am apparently. I’m more familiar with them, had a dog with what I assumed was screwworm when I was a kid, but maybe it was botfly as well. I didn’t actually know there was endemic botfly in the Western hemisphere.
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The most likely way it got there is he rubbed his eye and transferred an egg he picked up touching something.
For example (tho probably not the exact method), some species lay their eggs on the coat of horses, kid pets a horse and picks up an egg, rubs eye and transfers it. It hatches and burrows in and the rest you saw.
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sounds woke to me, I will ask Trump to ban the use of the word.
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😐 Jesus fucking Christ
Man, don’t read this article unless you have a strange desire to have nightmares.
Did you see the deer?
It was horrible.
I read it in full and watched the whole linked video. I do not recommend for the queezy, i was fascinated by it tho.
