Screwworm - a new menace for Africa

A newly-introduced pest poses a serious Ask for Africa's domestic and wild animals and also to the human population. It is the New World Screwworm fly (NWS ), Cochliomyia hominivorax, or 'devourer of man''. Female screwworm flies lay their eggs in...

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Autor principal: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Formato: News Item
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 1990
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/45314
Descripción
Sumario:A newly-introduced pest poses a serious Ask for Africa's domestic and wild animals and also to the human population. It is the New World Screwworm fly (NWS ), Cochliomyia hominivorax, or 'devourer of man''. Female screwworm flies lay their eggs in...