The US government plans to open something that means a flies factory by the end of the year, announcing its intention to declare millions of insects in Texas on Wednesday with Mexico to maintain a meat -eating parasite from the American cattle.
Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins said the sterile male new world Screwworm flies raised at $ 8.5 million. The USD will be released into the field to connect with women and prevent them from laying eggs with wounds that become the larvae that eat the body. It would be only the second device for breeding such flies in the western hemisphere, connecting one in Panama, which mainly kept flies while migrating further north until last year.
At the end of last year, The Fly’s performance in southern Mexico was worried about agricultural and cattle industry officials and veterinary groups, while the US stopped the imports of live cattle, horses and bison from Mexico last month. The US Department of Agriculture also plans to spend $ 21 million. USD to turn the unit into a fruit flies for breeding near the southern Mexican wall with a guatemala into one to breed a sterile new world screw, but it will not be prepared for 18 months.
The US was breeding and liberating the sterile new world decades ago for the wild, and in the 1960s it was deported from the country. In the past, it was an annual scourge of cattle Rannininkai and dairy farmers, especially in the southeast.
“The US has previously won the NWS, and we will do it again,” Rollins said. She organized a press conference at the Moore Air Base with Texas and Cattle Industry officials.
Mexican agricultural secretary Julio Berdegué said on Wednesday X that Rollins’ plan “seems to be a positive step in different aspects and will strengthen the joint work of Mexico and USA.”
“We trust the enthusiasm for cooperation mentioned by the secretary Rollins, and based on objective results and USDA mission reports visiting us this week, we will be able to release our cattle exports as soon as possible,” he said.
The new subject of Texas will be built at the Moore Air Base, which is less than 20 miles (32 km) from the Mexican border, and USDA said it would also consider building a companion flying center there to make up to 300 million flies. The object of Panama breeds about 100 million a week, and in Mexico could also develop as much as 100 million.
USDA said flies had been discovered as many as 700 miles (1,127 kilometers) from the US border, and some US agricultural and cattle officials were worried that if the migration was not tested, flies could reach the border until the end of the summer. US pressure led to Mexico to strengthen the efforts to control the spread of flies.
The Nebraska Cattle Rancher Buck Wehrbein and the President of the National Beef Heads said
Although there are treatments for the New World Screwworm infections, the cattle industry officials still worry that farmers and Rannininkai could see huge economic losses. They, agricultural officials and scientists also said larvae can infect any mammals, including household pets, and this was sometimes visible to humans.
“The only way to protect the American cattle herd from the devastating threat of the new world bolts is the supply of enough sterile flies to prevent this pest from our border,” Wehbein said.
Texas officials said they were grateful that the US was seriously regarded by the Screwworm threat and satisfied with plans, including the new institution in Texas.
Other states also monitor how the flying migration also monitors whether the sterile male flies are over. It is not published that its migration is very important.
“We have a real concern about wildlife because of their ability to cross the wall slightly, whether wild pigs, deer, wild cattle, no matter what,” said Justin Smith, a Kansas Animal Health Commissioner. “There is an opportunity for them to be the risk of our impact.”