Timothy Birdnow

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, I don't know why she swallowed a fly, I guess she'll die"/

Feds Breeding Billions of Flies, Planning to Dump Them on Texas and Mexico

Mexico may not notice a few billion more flies, but won't this make Texas a might uncomfortable?

They are dumping sterile flies to help wipe out a very damaging parasite from the Screwworm fly that is decimating cattle.

Sterile male screwworm flies are being dumped in these areas to out-compete the native born population (I suppose the irony of this is lost in Texas and other border states). The hope is they die and then that is that.

The flies are grown in Panama, then shipped here, where they are sorted by sex. You must have really good eyesight to do that, I suppose. And patience.

Then they are dumped in Texas where they overwhelm the indigenous insects.

Of course this will leave a nice big gap in the ecology, and something will step up to fill it. That something could be quite terrible.

This is the kind of hubris that leads to disaster. We know what happened to the old lady in the end.

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