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The United States planned to breed thousands of sterile flies in a southern Texas factory in an attempt to protect American cattle from meat -eating magaats in Mexico.
The New World Screw is a “disastrous insect”, the US Department of Agriculture said in a news release this week.
“When NWS fly the Magots into the flesh of a living animal, they cause serious, often fatal damage. NWS can infect livestock, pets, wildlife, sometimes in birds and rare cases, can infect people.
The cost of construction of the factory is expected to be $ 750 million, and it will be located in the Moore Air Force base outside Edinburgh, Texas, which is about 20 miles north of the border.
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Flies of various species were trapped in a trap near a auction pen in Harmosillo, Sonora State, Mexico, on July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
The USDA says that sterile flies “currently” are the most effective way to prevent the spread of magots, adding it, it expects to produce and leave them within a year.
USDA Secretary Brooke Rolins said that the government plans to spend $ 100 million to a horse like “tick riders” like trap and lur, theraputics, border petrols, dogs trained parasites and other equipment to smell that “ready or respond to NWS”.
Cowboy pushes a cow for a veterinarian inspection in a farm exporting livestock to the US in Zamora, Northern Mexico in July. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Rollins stated that the border would be closed for imports of cattle, horses and bison from Mexico until the parasite was pushed back to the Panama, where it was absorbed by the breeding of sterile flies by the end of last year.
“Farm Safety is national security,” Rolins said at a news conference at Texas State Capital in Austin this week with Texas Gove Greg Abbott. “All Americans must be worried. But it is definitely Texas and our border and livestock-producing state that are on the front lines of it every day.”
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Technicians prepare bait to attract flies near a cattle auction in Hermosilo, Sonora State, Mexico in July. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
The parasite has given a tough competition to the Mexican cattle industry, and the Ministry of Agriculture of Mexico stated that it plans to take steps to reduce the problem.
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The new world screwdriver was a problem in the American cattle industry until it was erased to a large extent through breeding of sterile flies in the 1970s, and the factories were later closed.
