I live in sheep and goat country, I remember that back in the 70s. Horrible. Walking dead sheep and goat were all over.

Thank you lord?? If a lord exists then it's responsible for creating those screworms in the first place and inflicting that suffering.

@@bob-yd8xv how miserable are you

@@bob-yd8xv Suffering makes you stronger and better person in general. Screworm therapy will change your life.

@@bob-yd8xv Oh, look, a fanatic who can't stand even a passing mention of a religion he doesn't believe in without rabbit-trailing into his soapbox.

why is the screw worm such a problem over there, and since when? has it been all along or what? i am asking seriously, from central europe where we would first try to understand if there was a ecological reason for the massive impact of these worms ... . it is always dangerous and can turn to the opposite effect, to play god and try to change things on such a huge scale.

@@felice9907 Hi! This fly is actually native of the Americas and wildlife has evolved with them and figured out ways to protect themselves better than domestic animals. Even though this fly is certainly affecting survival at a general level. From Texas to Panama it got eliminated but this time it crossed the barrier we added to keep them at bay in South America from where would be impossible to eliminate. So whoever owns domestic animas must protect them or lose them. Is not impossible to keep removing this flies, They are well prepared. Yes we changed the range of a native species but the economic and salubrity benefits from doing it are huge and even the natural environment gets a break from mistreatments from our part. So...Yeah!

Lo ocupamos de nuevo en el frente... Ya sabes por qué...

Bravo to scientists, researchers, naturalists and taxpayers.

Thank you!!

ah yes, that was the Golden Fleece Award, a truly remarkable commitment to scientific illiteracy and ignorance

Rand Paul?

It was a nonprofit called Citizens Against Government Waste which criticized the screwworm research in 1991, basically saying "Hey, we already eradicated it from the U.S., why do we need to continue spending money on it?"

Senator William Proxmire

I wonder what color red hat they wear

Wow!

@@grantcritchfieldstexastrai7072 Huh. The bit about the deer brings up an interesting question. What's the ethical priority here -- avoiding modifications to the natural ecosystem, or condemning countless organisms to an incredibly painful and horrific death?

Imagine walking through frog rain

They are inside your skin

Yummies! 😋

They are dropped as flies. If anything worse.

And imagine u open ur mouth

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Dont worry, if the radioactive worms become a problem, we'l just release millions of radioactive super mantises to combat them

At least the origin story for Mothra

Have you seen All nightmare long music video from Metallica???

Or a slightly smarter movie's explanation of how it ended, possibly.

This issue has been affecting palm trees all around the Mediterranean with the red palm weevil. My parents lived in Portugal a few years ago and my dad had a bucket trap for their mature palm tree. It was still going strong last I heard but there were very few palms still standing in the area and it completely changed the local landscape.

@@bestoca It is ultimately fighting a loosing battle though, as soon as you cease the control measures it will come straight back. The hope is that the indigenous flora develops a resistance (which may take thousands of years for evolutionary pressures to work on the mutations) or the local fauna learns to predate on the new pest as a food source. I’ve heard that certain birds are learning to eat the moths in the last few years. Although globalisation has increased the rate of spread of new pests, the reality is that these processes have been occurring since the dawn of life, isn’t it something like 98% of all species that once existed are extinct. Of course you could make a very good argument that we are by a very large margin, the most destructive and invasive pest of all!

Biochemical tech, the next slow revolution past the digital.

@@shakacien As a molecular biologist I should be in agreement. However, the downside is that ecosystems (as is the climate) are highly complex systems. An intervention into one of the inputs will, with certainty, not have the expected output. Even our best models today remain as good as useless in predicting outputs of such systems, for example, the most advanced meteorological systems offer no better than using seaweed beyond 4 days. We have no mastery over our world.

@@yp77738yp77739 Brings to mind the reintroduction of Apex predators into the wild such as the wolves in the U.S. national parks and how the landscape and habitat changed thru their eradication. And whilst this analogy is most likely simplistic in comparison, it still took nigh on a 100 years before we realised our error. Just one cog...

And yet mosquitoes have become a horrible plaque in most of the world and nobody cares.. because it doesn't destroy industry property.. Disgusting what motivates these projects.

It's worth mentioning that there is an enormous and silly public opposition to the GMO insect method of eradication. It's silly because if you read the comments section of any news story about a release of the GMO mosquitoes, you will see some ignorant comments that most people would recognize as silly. Here are some examples: 1) Many animals eat mosquitoes, so we will be hurting the very animals who reduce the natural mosquito population. Why is that silly? First, because these animals eat many different mosquitoes' species and eliminating the one bad species does not harm any animal. 2) Because almost everywhere that dangerous mosquitoes live near humans, the communities use some method of mosquito control and these methods affect almost all mosquito species. 1,2) A very very common mosquito control method is spraying poison. But poisons don't kill mosquitoes instantly. While the poison is working, the mosquito gets very weak and is the easiest mosquito for the predator to catch. So the predator consumes the poison. 3) The mosquito that carries Zika is Aedes aegypti, and in all the places where the GMO mosquitoes are released, A. aegypti is an invasive species, nothing the native predators would be depending on. 4) The idiots say that there is a possibility that the GMO mosquito would out-compete the wild mosquito. That's a complete misunderstanding of how evolution works. There are many other silly objections.

that would have been scary, I'm glad those mosquitos no longer lay lava down, that would really suck.

@@arandomcommenter412 It's hard enough when the floor is lava. Imagine if every mosquito was lava too.

​@@mal2ksc😂😂

Well, "attached to Haiti" just got bumped down to second place on my list of reasons to avoid the Dominican. Not sure whether that's good for you, but I guess congratulations to Haiti on being the less terrifying option compared to the flies.

I got 2 bot flies (pretty much the same thing) in my shoulder in Belize. So gross.

Poor donkey, indeed.

No Bot Flys are different they feed on puss.

@@johnladuke6475Put bug screens, over your ear holes, you’ll be fine.

Send Amy to Panama with the bugs

I can't wait for Sam from Wendover to send Amy to Panama with the bugs

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Ah, this must be Amy's burner account lol

Who is this Sam from Wendover? You should be asking Sam from HAI.

Hope it someday makes it down to you somehow. And also that screwworms don't turn out to be secretly super-important in the natural food chain.

@@Brasswatchman It's worth considering, you're right, but one would assume that's being thought-on and examined, and the fact that we haven't seen any major apparent knock-on effects in North America seems good evidence that whatever niche the screw-worm fills currently doesn't seem negatively-affected by their elimination (whether that's due to the niche remaining empty or to another species filling it in a less-destructive manner would be an interesting question. We've certainly eliminated other pests without much in the way of apparent harm to the ecosystem). Also a good point about expanding the "worm-free" zone. imagine how much more loss could be prevented, and how much cheaper maintenance of the eradication would be, if the entire N/S American landmass were freed from the screw-worm.

​@@Brasswatchmanthey're indigenous to this region (i also live in brazil). we have this technology already (the interrupted mate cycle-generational by getting a female with no offspring possibility or similar), although not in this scale (no one has this scale, i mean). we used in several places (as research) for the aedes aegypt mosquito, and it worked for a while, but the mosquitoes adapted somehow and bypassed. and it wasn't even radiation, it was a genetical alteration technique because the radiation on females already doesn't work on this mosquitoes somehow. it works like this: the male is genetically modified and it mates normally with the female. but the dominant gene from the male (the modified one) makes most of the mosquitoes born infertiles (if the dominant gene wins, the offspring is infertile). so with constant reintroductions of new modified lab aedes the population should be at least very very small some generations ahead, right? then you just kill it with chemicals pretty easy no. they just evolved to bypass the gene modification years into the research. the fly thing isn't a huge problem, probably because they have natural predators (which they don't out of tropical areas). but its still terrible and not only pet owners but people from the agricultural business gotta be extra careful

A worthwhile investment from the US to non-US countries that hate the US anyway. 😅

@@stephenjenkins7971 It's not like we didn't do plenty during the Cold War to deserve it. (Except in Venezuela, weirdly enough?) Maybe this could be a step in the right direction.

Did it succeed? Those damned mosquitos are everywhere in Central Europe.

Doubt the deer ate from their hands but feel free to test it

I have deer in my backyard already. Please do not give deer any more reason to like humans. Good theory though.

Please don't feed the deer.

Please don't feed your deer human food.

My step mom loves to bake and my whole family loves loose leaf tea so we stock up and every few weeks we will dump the used tea leaves and bread around our deer stands, they absolutely love it lol we also like to put Kool aid in the corn we feed them for a treat

By a screw worm even......lol

Bloody brilliant comment.

I know the idea of radiating flies from a 80s/90s documentary in a series with aggressive bees too ;-)... so, yeah, scientists in the past also were creating a fake dinosaurs from chickens for views and likes. maybe the panama cooperation is fresh but the idea is over 30 years.

Actually they still use insecticides and natural predators.. and also antiparasitics.

@@victordelorientis8763ya and DDT. A lot of countries including Panama still use DDT for mosquito abatement though it’s very expensive with the lenlightened” countries banning it. Which by the way kills MILLIONS of people.

If

😢 Ugh. That's friggin' awful! Poor good boi.

Gotta love AI!

Thanks for the warning. That sounds like the time I googled "Tryptophobia" and the top result was all the tryptophobia-triggering images Google has.

Google has decided what your nightmares will be tonight.

@@valdonchev7296trypophobia isn’t real

They want to make sure you vote for congressmen who support the great worm wall 🙂

No. Not even close degenerate. It's a penny or a pound of flesh.

The thing they're working on? Trying to kill something else.

Technically this is still just killing stuff, in a different way. We're just good at killing things but sometimes it works out.

Same deal with the eradication of smallpox. Humans are pretty good at working together to kill something.

Guess the reason that Cuba isn't free of them yet needs not be explained... 🤦‍♂

THIS!

I would have paid to see that video. 😂. A cat's cheek? Was that a five man job ?😂 My one cat is so wild you cannot hold him more than a minute 😂

Was this recent? Might be worth checking to see if you can make a report of the sighting to relevant authorities.

Yeah if that was recent I would try to get it reported so they can prevent screwworms from becoming a problem again

That's kinda already how it is. You just pay an even larger share for the next-gen military hardware.

Effective government spending backed up by scientific research with an agenda that supports the greater good across the vast majority of lines which generally divide people on issues of public projects. There are more of these than people think but if they do their job correctly then you don't even notice they are working. This is good on the one hand because it's unobtrusive but on the other hand it means that they don't get a lot of popular support and could be attacked/defunded by those who don't understand how vital said projects are.

@cassandra9699 Governments are supposed to reign those in and force them to be beneficial for everyone. Otherwise it's a plutocracy not a democracy.

​​@cassandra9699 no, it's the government fighting shadow wars by sending hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars to foreign countries and ruining our economy.

No! Drain the swamp! It's all a worm hoax and taxpayer rip-off. MAGA! Fight bullshit science! Promote racism and revenge! Vote Trump!

i assume the spanish one does

@@hsngm33it does! Comisión Panamá-Estados Unidos para la Erradicación y Prevención del Gusano Barrenador del Ganado

The Spanish version doesn't have just one, but 2 g's. Honestly that acronym just makes no sense. Estados Unidos para la Erradicación y Prevención del Gusano Barrenador del Ganado

It's just that cool

They're just incredibly tired of current memes.

I bet!

Yuck!6

Ok well you did the smell test. Did it also look like shit? If it did, Buddy I'm just thinking you should be able to skip the 3rd phase (taste test) and just go ahead and call it shit. Just a suggestion

yea, putrefaction, is a fly's pudding.

​@@harrysmith8338😂😂

Are they still biting you and laying infertile eggs in your brain?

Not only that, it's also somehow a good thing for everyone

Reality is stranger than fiction

Pro Tip: Don't sleep outside with your mouth open.

You're welcome!

We thank you for your assistance.

The beginner’s version of the infamous “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”.

@@lawrencecalablaster568 Don't forget the Police police Police police police police Police police...

All of the above?

Brazil is a big, blessed, self-sufficient country. Y'all got everything the US has, minus the tornadoes and earthquakes and snowstorms. If y'all weren't so corrupt, lazy, averse to proper Education, and stopped re-electing idiots like Lula and Dilma who keep sending millions and millions of your money to leeching communist countries and to their personal offshore bank accounts, instead of investing in Education, Arts, Science and Infrastructure; perhaps you could do your own screwworm extermination program instead of blaming the US for "keeping cattle farming in South America more difficult"😑😑😑

The trick is when you learn enough surface layer stuff about enough topics to start connecting things, and be able to logically fill in a lot of the deeper level gaps in your knowledge.

Knowledge might not be intelligence, but it *is* the raw material for it. The more you know the more you're able to learn, understand, make connections, and arrive at (correct) inferences. So I don't know how smart OP is, but I'm guessing they're smarter than they think they are, and getting smarter still.

Basically, Reddit but less obnoxious

approximate knowledge of many things is just a fun way to live tbh

Big same.

First Isreal and then this

Once again, the US footing the bill for foreign countries' issues. With zero gratitude for doing it. How long can the US continue throwing money to the benefit of other countries?

In my country, there would be immediately a conspiracy theory that this program is actually a cover-up to spread decease or something like that. Then a populist politican would profit off of that, by claiming to defund the "decease-worm-dropping-program" and when he gets elected, he does so. Then the real danger, the screwworms, will mess up our agricultural economy and people would see the infected people and livestock and would go: "This is the doing of the evil decease-worm-dropping-program! Good thing we got rid of that!"

Bro 💀

Anti-parasitic, not antibiotic. It won't help you with an infection.

1) Not an antibiotic, as previously said by someone else 2) Do not take a daily antibiotic without medical supervision, using them incorrectly is how we're getting super germs 3) Please, just go to the corner store and buy a donut instead

Now I want donuts

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dang, that's a gritty true story

Yeah, back in the 1950's. But we've moved on.

Well, 😅 Bill Gates.😅 🦟

I NEED them to do this with mosquitos, as someone who has a phobia of EEE and West Nile Virus.

Yeah gates being super into depopulation of humans makes even the best intentions he has had sus

The only reason it works so well on the screwflies is because they only mate once in a lifetime which means if they miss their chance they are 'screwed'. For most species of mosquitos this is not the case so even on top of the wider range, greater population, and more distinct species to deal with. You'd have to make peace with the fact that you'll only lessen their numbers not eradicate them.

These ones were merely radiated. With mosquitos they want to change their genome.

Yeah, the Wolbachia project in Singapore is the most famous project being undertaken to reduce the instances of dengue, Zika, chikugunya and yellow fever diseases. World Mosquito Programme is another international collaboration to introduce Wolbachia bacteria into the mosquito population. The Wolbachia bacteria, for some reason, is able to reduce the instances of Zika, chikugunya, yellow fever disease and dengue in mosquitoes without destroying their population. Over 50% of all insects today are laden with Wolbachia bacteria, and this bacteria is our ultimate shield against the abovementioned mosquito-borne diseases. So it's not like we "sterilize" the mosquito; we in fact "infect" them with this bacteria, so that they can get passed down from one generation to the other via the eggs.

We have been doing a version for mosquitoes for nearly a decade now. We release a bunch of modified males that produce sterile offspring. It's pretty cool/ creepy as a concept

@@FiredAndIced So basically we're fighting disease with another disease.

@@hedgehog3180 outcompete the disease with a friendlier disease

​@hedgehog3180 Like in the movie World War Z.

Mexico paid for only a small part of it, though in doing so they massively reduced the money we needed to spend so it's definitely a win-win for them and the USA as well as the other nations that got involved.

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yep, its just fun way to spend your weekend.

Why WOULDN'T you? 🤣

😆

I do something similar; I drop 14.7 million worms on Van Halen each week. It's a lot more difficult but way more rewarding - particularly since I make sure to nail both David Lee Roth _and_ Sammy Hagar.

Mmm, worms and dirt.

Watched this while eating breakfast. Great video, would do again.

Watching this while eating a biscuit (That's cookie for you heathens)

Breakfast*

East Virginia.

@@doomsdayrabbit4398 There was an actual town called East, West Virginia. Its Wikipedia article is comically short.

Wait that's not its name?!

I live there and I don't call it that

@@Distress. is just baja california,

They already are, in many places.

i gotta know what the context behind that is, how are the horseshoe crabs staying alive??

@@nisc2001 the horseshoe crabs have special blood that can be used to make medicine, it doesn't bode well for their survival however in this instance. Turns out being released back into the wild with some serious blood loss isn't the best survival situation.

@@themenacingpenguin.7152 why return them then xD

​@@nisc2001 Because at least some, if not most, will survive.

​@@themenacingpenguin.7152 Most of the time they only take a safe amount from each animal because they're so damn widespread that there's enough to go around for everyone. Mishaps happen, and some of them do die, but most survive.

The legislature reflects the electorate.

You mean... bureaucrats like the ones who organized and implemented this entire program?

This is literally what the government is doing, clown

Local radio show used to play a listener game called: "Cop / No Cop". Listener would guess yes or no, and DJs called a random donut shop and asked: is there a Cop there?

That sounds kinda funny and also entertaining but probably not for the cop at the donut shop peacefully enjoying his doughnuts

real

Screwworms always get my appetite up

lol im watching this at midnight

If you "need" something to watch as you eat, and then feel compelled to tell strangers on the internet this information, then this is really pathetic, and I hope you manage to turn your life around

I screw screw worms by screwing screw worms with screwy screw worms.

"You know the truck that spreads road salt after a snow storm? It's like that, but instead of a truck, it's an airplane, and instead of salt, it's worms."

I was distracted by the dancing clown.

I mean why not just keep going and get colombia, peru, chile, equedor, boliva, brazil and argentina in on this sweet deal?

Some would say they are screwed

Screwception

We're screwing screwworms be getting screwed screwworms to screw screwworms.

They screw each other, but then they realize they're screwed. Not because they screwed each other, but because we screwed them over before they could screw each other. So now their screwing is screwed.

They are called maggots and larvae in the states. This video sounds incorrect by calling them worms. Maybe it's an old timer thing.

@@everythingmatters6308 Fly larvae that doesn't infest the bodies of people or animals are often called maggots (such as common house flies). Fly larvae that does infest the bodies of people or animals are often called worms (such as screw worms). Like anything else, it varies for different species of the flies and from region to region, but it is not unusual to refer to many types of parasitic larvae as worms even in the USA. Some people distinguish these larvae from worms in the ground by referring to those as earthworms.

No, it’s both.

@@Pixl8dwhmsy no such thing as cgemtrails

36 seasons???? No way. I’m jealous of whoever that director is. That is the easiest infinite money glitch I’ve ever heard.

Gangs?

@@Shiestey They do 2 seasons a year, so show has been on TV for 18. The show did NOT start in 1988 if it were truly 36 years.

Wow, I wonder why they went to Panama so many times.

Or the California fruit flies video.

The Wolbachia bacteria, for some reason, is able to reduce the instances of Zika, chikugunya, yellow fever disease and dengue in mosquitoes without destroying their population. Over 50% of all insects today are laden with Wolbachia bacteria, and this bacteria is our ultimate shield against the abovementioned mosquito-borne diseases. So it's not like we "sterilize" the mosquito; we in fact "infect" them with this bacteria, so that they can get passed down from one generation to the other via the eggs.

Why don't they also do it for Healthcare????

@@pierzing.glint1sh76 One could jokingly argue preventing flies from burrowing into your living flesh is a form of healthcare lmao

@jemmerllast8492 Put it this way The job of the government is to support and protect the people. Unfortunately it also protects and helps those people who exploit other people Eg health insurance companies, big tech, big tobacco etc "We the people" doesnt just mean the little guy

@@pierzing.glint1sh76 I get free health care. If I do pay it's only 4 dollars I've been getting it for 5 years now

Let be honest we lucky we are even allow to complain about the government some country will arrest and send you to jail, even the USA have a time where they deport people that are again the government policy (the red scare lol I think most people would be deported or exile if the USA still have policy of the red scare)

The thing is, the Colombian government is fighting against FARC, paramilitary and drug cartel forces, and whose history ultimately started by US companies' interference in US foreign policies (United Fruit Company) by way of installing puppet governments in banana republics; Colombia was one of those states. So expecting a country whose civil war started from American foreign interference by way of their megacorporations is going to take a long time to find some concord.

The US is working on helping Uruguay with this. But you have to understand that South America is very unorganized and the countries there are rarely friendly with their neighboring countries. Not only that but they are often horrible at money management and have lots of political upheaval so it's hard to coordinate and guarantee a long term program. Even if the US paid 100% of the cost, I guarantee South America would screw it up somehow.

@@mediocreman2 Brazil already has a national program to eradicate this type of flies using genetic engineering techniques for many years, the problem is that it's much more difficult to eradicate flies from the places that they are native, they mutate and evolve bypassing the methods used, the solution is not simple as this video makes it seems. Also Brazil is one of the largest producers and exports of animal protein in the world, if this type of flies were really a huge problem for the farmers and ranchers you can be sure that they would already be united to come with a solution to such a pest and work together with government agencies like Embrapa and others as they have always done, but that doesn't seem the case, so I doubt that this is huge problem.