
This technique has been used with great success to control the spread of the screw worm, a very bad parasite of cattle, sheep, goats but also of humans that was attacking animals in Africa (It is a type of big black fly that lays hundreds of eggs in skin wounds of the animal and then the larvaes will just come out from any part in the body, drilling the tissues and bursting through the skin... very disgusting to see the photos...). The technique is tested also for other insects including mosquitoes for the fight against malaria.
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