Return of the Screw Flies

[aGDevil2k]

Texas prepares for war as invasion of flesh-eating flies appears imminent - Ars Technica Texas prepares for war as invasion of flesh-eating flies appears imminent

 

[SnoopRob]

Any chance they can be encouraged to head to the Capitol building in Austin?

 

[Rock]

Yeah I read about a paragraph of that article and I’m good..

 

[finesse]

Any chance they can be encouraged to head to the Capitol building in Austin?

Wouldn't a scarab invasion leave less behind?

 

[aGDevil2k]

Yeah I read about a paragraph of that article and I’m good..

Don't click the picture of the deer

Disgusting. I remember hearing about them before but I had no idea they were potentially coming back.

 

[05C40]

OK, I read the article, and it seems to suggest that Texas has decided that the federal efforts, regardless of how successful they have been in the past, should be supplemented by Texas "home-grown" solutions. We are all doomed.

 

[nycfan]

The screw worms are already a key cause of the skyrocketing beef costs in the USA — we tried to prevent importing infection by prohibiting buying cattle from Mexico and points south, which makes sense. But western ranchers have been under immense drought pressures, forcing them to replace virtually free grazing with costly feed, and the COVID inflation on feed and ultimately worker pay led to culling of herds. Then herds could not be resupplied with a lot of foreign cattle due to the screw worm risk.

Meanwhile, demand for beef continues to rise in the USA, especially as high protein diets gain favor.

At least they are trying to be proactive to fight the inevitable screw worm infections in American herds.

 

[aGDevil2k]

The screw worms are already a key cause of the skyrocketing beef costs in the USA — we tried to prevent importing infection by prohibiting buying cattle from Mexico and points south, which makes sense. But western ranchers have been under immense drought pressures, forcing them to replace virtually free grazing with costly feed, and the COVID inflation on feed and ultimately worker pay led to culling of herds. Then herds could not be resupplied with a lot of foreign cattle due to the screw worm risk.

Meanwhile, demand for beef continues to rise in the USA, especially as high protein diets gain favor.

At least they are trying to be proactive to fight the inevitable screw worm infections in American herds.

Oh that makes a lot of sense.

 

[NYCBlueBlood]

Don't worry, Trump built a wall. Texas will def be protected.

 

[Patb78]

Don't worry, Trump built a wall. Texas will def be protected.

Trump could use his magic magic marker and with a few line redirect the invasion to Cuba or somewhere else.

 

[NOVAHEEL13]

wait those things are real? (said in my Keanu Reeves - neo voice)

 

[NYCBlueBlood]

Dang, I'm gonna have to go back to the marketing team for new naming ideas on that sex toy I've been developing...