The move comes as the New World Screwworm fly larvae continues to cause chaos as it infiltrates the US beef industry, affecting wider wildlife, pets and, in rare cases, humans.
According to scientists, the new batches of male sterilised maggots will be dumped over the South American nation and the US state of Texas in a bid to eradicate the vicious variety of flesh-eating larvae.
The US Department of Agriculture is said the male flies, which measure slightly larger than the average housefly, will be sterilised with radiation before being released.
The strategy, set out by scientists, will force the female screwworms to breed with the newly sterilised males.
The flesh-eating variety of the screwworm maggots were eradicated from the US in 1966, but the creatures appear to me making a comeback.
Rhode Island is tiny, Europe is not
Rhode Island isn’t a landmass. It’s a political division. Europe is large for everything but continents. But it’s a moderately sized peninsula on the Eurasian continent.
Nobody is claiming it’s small like Luxembourg, we’re saying its small like India (yes I know its 3x the size of india)
You consider India small?
For a country it’s huge. For a landmass it’s small.