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Eradication of the Screwworm Fly
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For decades the New World screwworm fly devastated agriculture across the southern United States, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. At least until the 1950s when a strange combination of radiation, and releasing billions of the very fly they sought to eradicate into the wild. And today, the screwworm has all but disappeared from North America. This is the story of the Eradication of the Screwworm Fly.
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Stop Screwworms: Selections from the Screwworm Eradication Collection
https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/exhibits/show/stop-screwworms--selections-fr
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/cattle/ticks/screwworm
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Inhalt bereitgestellt von Matt and McKinley Breen and McKinley Breen. Alle Podcast-Inhalte, einschließlich Episoden, Grafiken und Podcast-Beschreibungen, werden direkt von Matt and McKinley Breen and McKinley Breen oder seinem Podcast-Plattformpartner hochgeladen und bereitgestellt. Wenn Sie glauben, dass jemand Ihr urheberrechtlich geschütztes Werk ohne Ihre Erlaubnis nutzt, können Sie dem hier beschriebenen Verfahren folgen https://de.player.fm/legal.
For decades the New World screwworm fly devastated agriculture across the southern United States, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. At least until the 1950s when a strange combination of radiation, and releasing billions of the very fly they sought to eradicate into the wild. And today, the screwworm has all but disappeared from North America. This is the story of the Eradication of the Screwworm Fly.
Sources
Stop Screwworms: Selections from the Screwworm Eradication Collection
https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/exhibits/show/stop-screwworms--selections-fr
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/cattle/ticks/screwworm
Image: https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/items/show/7394
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