Sterile Fly Release

IMG_9102SterileFlyworms
IMG_9102SterileFlyworms

The Fish and Wildlife Department has contraptions like this set-up all over the island to release millions of sterile blowflies into the environment to mate with the unsterile ones in hopes of eliminating screwworms. There has not been an outbreak in over thirty years in the United States.

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