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...

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Format: News Item
Language:Inglés
Published: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 1990
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/45314
Description
Summary: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...