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screwworm

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screwworm: see blowfly blowfly, name for flies of the family Calliphoridae. Blowflies are about the same size as, and resemble, the housefly; because they are usually metallic blue or green they are also called bluebottle or greenbottle flies.
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screwworm

Any of several North and South American blowfly species named for the screwlike appearance of the larva's body, which is ringed with small spines. Screwworms attack livestock and other animals, including humans. The true screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) and the secondary screwworm (Callitroga macellaria) develop in decaying flesh; they may also attack healthy tissue. Each female deposits 200–400 eggs near an open wound. The larvae burrow into the tissue and, when mature, drop to the ground to pupate. Severe infestations (myiasis) may kill the affected animal.
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One museum scientist's knowledge of screwworms helped stop an outbreak among cattle in Africa dead in its tracks--an outbreak that might have devastated much of the continent's wildlife.
Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Perkins, Sid / Science News
Also use the waning moon for hunting potato leafhoppers, cucumber beetles, corn borers, mites, bean-leaf beetles, fleas, lice, ticks, screwworms and fly maggots.
Poor Will's Countryside Almanack for late spring and early summer 2007 by Countryside & Small Stock Journal
Under the proposal to Parliament, government would buy millions of sexually sterile screwworm flies, which mate with the natural flies but don't produce offspring, effectively short-circuiting the pest's reproductive cycle.
Plan to eradicate screwworms by Caribbean Update
 
 
 
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