Screwworms

That is, until our cattle come down with screwworms and our kids with rabies. ❋ Unknown (2011)

These were screwworms, maggots that burrow into healthy tissue. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mammals are continually assaulted by parasites—by lice, fleas, ticks, botflies, screwworms, and warbleflies—that suck blood or lay their eggs in the skin. ❋ Carl Zimmer (2009)

It's got man-boobs, screwworms, and kumatos, so you don't want to miss it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Now, some of the projects you may find the most shocking is $102 million to study screwworms, $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole, and $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in, where else, California. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Mention of screwworms at a moment of such solemnity made everyone queasy, even Call, for they had all seen the dreadful putrefaction that resulted when screwworms infested a deer or a cow. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1997)

Over by the area they called the Broken Buttes, Benteen found Zeke Taylor dousing a cow with a bad case of screwworms. ❋ Janet Dailey (1982)

It is thought that the mud plaster produced by wallowing suffocates the larvae, but in India screwworms do not affect water buffaloes either, and there they wallow in fairly clear water and the farmer usually washes them off. ❋ Unknown (1981)

When viewed under ultraviolet light, the transgenic screwworms emitted a fluorescent glow, helping confirm GFP's activation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Transgenic screwworms developed by Agricultural Research Service scientists could set the stage for new, improved methods of eradicating the pest based on the sterile insect technique ❋ Unknown (2010)

So, starting in 2004, the ARS team -- entomologists Margaret Allen and Steven Skoda and geneticist Alfred Handler -- began research aimed at developing genetically sterile, male-only screwworms using transformation technology first tried on Medflies, also targets of SIT-based eradication. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Since March 2007, the Ministry has been employing a new approach in eradicating screwworms; an environmentally-friendly Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), where boxes are used to disperse sterile flies into the wild, as opposed to the chill fly system, which was previously used. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is enlisting the help of animal owners, particularly dog owners in ensuring the eradication of screwworms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Youre] a [screwworm]. ❋ Mr.ScrewDriver (2010)