Entomologist and Photographer in Austin, Texas.
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Alex Wild
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I get the sense that Trumpies are leaking to press outlets the cattle smuggling angle to divert attention from their own failures, and media are running with it.
Screwworm probably would not have gotten to the United States so quickly without cattle being moved around in Central America. But the main trouble is that the sterile male barrier in Panama was breached.
A lot of media coverage of screwworm misses that screwworm is a fly, and flies can move themselves around without livestock shipments.
Cattle shipments are good for quick long-distance spread, but if the climate is right and there are mammalian hosts, it will arrive just fine on its own wings.
Because I follow a lot of bug scientists, my first thought when I log on to this website and see people posting excitedly about something with no context is that they have discovered a new weevil.
It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.
