Summary[edit] Description: English: Pin-site myiasis in a 77-year-old man 12 years after tibial osteosynthesis, Colombia. A) Open wound in the man’s left leg, showing multiple insect larvae. B, C) Cochliomyia hominivorax screwworm fly larvae extracted from the wound. Arrow 1 indicates the spinose bands; note the spines arranged in 4 rows that separate each segment. Arrow 2 indicates its mouthhooks. Scale bars indicate 2 mm (B) and 1 mm (C). Date: February 2019. Source: EID Journal, Volume 25 > Number 2—February 2019, https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/2/18-1053-f1. Author: Various.
Summary[edit] Description: English: The screw-worm fly was the first pest successfully eliminated from an area through the sterile insect technique by the use of an integrated area-wide approach. Date: 10 June 2009. Source: The Mexican-American Commission for the Eradication of the Screwworm. Author: The Mexican-American Commission for the Eradication of the Screwworm. Permission(Reusing this file): Attribution: The Mexican-American Commission for the Eradication of the Screwworm.