I usually rather like Ars, but there’s something very weird and silly about applying the idea of borders, especially non natural ones, to flies.
“Your puny human constructs are nothing to me, flesh bags.”
Until recently, the screwworm population was kept at bay via a biological barrier along the Darién Gap at the border of Panama and Colombia. The USDA partnered with authorities in Panama to build a sterile fly production facility at the gap to regularly release sterile flies and hold the line. But in 2022, the barrier was breached, and the flies have been relentlessly buzzing northward since.
it makes more sense with context
Good job Texas and maga, actual brainworm time
See!!! If only we would have listened to the magnificent MAGA leader Trump and built the wall that Mexico would have paid for! It would have prevented the Mexican screwworm from illegally crossing the border and hurting REAL AmericansTM!
/s because this is probably what MAGA believes.
Thanks DOGE!!!
This is the answer. May screwworms burrow into Elon’s testicles.
texas is the worst state possible to be on the front lines of this. smh
Getting what they voted for. Better there than here
Removed by mod
huh? their response to this outbreak is crucial in whether it stops there or keeps spreading. which do you think will happen?
Maybe they will take it seriously since it will affect cattle.
The USDA is actually because this shill fuck the bottom line out of the whole meat industry.
People don’t have any idea how true this is. The USDA suffered from corruption before. It is honestly time for a lot of people to start evaluating their diets with regulatory reality.
We can all thank the Sig Heiling feckless loser Elon Musk and his illegal DOGE for this. His ego was so massive that he didn’t realize why the government was breeding flies to contain this absolute horror of a parasite.
This will continue to spread, and I hope that Cybertruck shaped moron is personally infected so he can suffer the actual consequences of his bottomless hubris for once in his unfortunately persistent life.
I’m so tired of this shit. People need to hang for these decisions
How neat is it that the screwworm, which was a plague in the 1930s, is back just in time (well, a little early but when the history books are written they’ll zoom out the timeline) for our reenactment of the Great Depression? A little on the nose with history repeating itself, but still interesting. I guess we should be on the lookout for another Dust Bowl too.
Here,
https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/soil-moisture-next-dust-bowl/
Take my confirmation bias doomer porn and have a terrifying rest of your day.
Wow, hell of a sign off line.
Who else is excited for WW3??
With the absolute decimation of our scientific divisions in our government don’t expect any help with this.
Man to bad we don’t have a solution to this problem that we already know works.
That would be so awesome to have right now
Another Trump achievement
RFK grabs the grandkids and heads to Texas.
Aren’t Orange’s borders impenetrable? Where is ICE? 🙃
Melted.
Time to stock up on more ivermectin 🕺
An Ivermectin a day keeps everything away
Don’t forget your alpha brain, the ivermectin gets rid of the bad brain worms but that’s only half of the equation, gotta take alpha brain to get the good brain worms in!
Protip if you’re squeamish absolutely do not look up photos of what this does to cattle and other fauna. Pure nightmare fuel.
It infects humans too 🙃
Yeah but humans can and would do something about it.
A cow gets a wound, the wound gets infected, and the larva make the wound bigger, probably leading to more even infection - while the cow has no way to deal with that.
If only we elected that guy who promised to build a wall smdh
