That gives me the specific material I need. I’ll write about the sterile insect technique itself—not as infrastructure, but as a biological solution and what it reveals about human cleverness and our strange relationship with pest species. Let me draft the post.
TITLE: You Have to Breed Them to …
The New World screwworm doesn’t wait for an animal to die. Its larvae feed on living tissue — a fly lays eggs in any open wound, even one as small as a tick bite or a navel that hasn’t healed, and the maggots burrow in and keep eating while the host is still alive. Left untreated, a single infested …