To anyone confused as I was, they are talking about a location in Mexico roughly 31 miles away from the USA border, not 31 miles of border length.
5 earthquakes in the past 7 days, a meteor OVER a volcano, pestilence…
We’re cooked.
Meh. The human race is a plague in general.
I’m all for humanity waging a bio war against all human parasites that if decimated would have no biological impact.
If we ever want to gene drive these fuckers out of existence, cutting science funding was probably a bad call.
RFK Jr. has immediately flown to the area to play with, and possibly eat them.
Praise Shai Hulud!
Do you think he’ll bring his grandkids, like as a snack for the screw worms?
They’re coming for the rest of you, Kennedy!
If you haven’t seen the image of what these things can do to a deer, I’d highly advise against looking for the pic unless you have a strong stomach.
Their name is enough
I took that bait and can confirm you should not look up the images. I need to lay down.
Pffft wimps.
Mother of God… what even… why did I do that!!!
Right? I mean, I guess that’s pretty much where I saw 2026 going anyway. 😅
You warned me and I still did it.
Can we have covid back instead?
I have seen the damage they do to cows and horses in real life and it’s nightmarish. My father got one in his arm once, this was before I was born but luckily he got it out before it did much harm.
People think the sunbelt population boom was all about AC becoming widely available. Yes, AC played a huge role. Also, not having extremely painful fly larva burrow into any open wound, mucus membrane. Believe it or not, that was something of a turn off for people prior to the eradication campaign of the 50s. Time to start wearing long sleeves and layers again.
But hey, at least we saved a few million dollars by not adequately funding the facilities that kept screwworms south of the Darien Gap. It should only cost a few billion to repeat the eradication campaign this time around.
The article talks about cattle, but these things infest humans, too.
But people can usually seek help, sucks for wild animals
Oh hell Jimmy, I don’t care for that notion one bit.
I don’t know about the southern border of Texas, but much of the Southern / South-Eastern USA is experiencing varying degrees of drought this spring with very little relief in sight. The last time things were this bad in my part of the country was about 20 - 25 years ago.
I wonder how that will play into the spread of these parasites. Will they spread more quickly due to sicker/weaker wild populations of host animals spreading out trying to find ever more scarce food and water resources?
It’s not quite the same thing, but that prior major drought I mentioned from a couple decades ago is widely discussed as having been the source event for the spread of fire ants to my area. A lot of our agricultural products like animal feeds are grown, produced, and consumed locally. However, in drought years, things like hay have to be transported in from other parts of the country and it’s believed that the fire ants hitched a ride from out of state that way.
RFK Jr. should be keeping them to himself.
his is braineating worms. hence the raccoon fetish.
Just the peen Robert, just the peen.
It’s impressive that many of us immediately went there. He’s made a name for himself.
He’s certainly a striking character. Dude sounds like a wheelbarrow of rocks falling down a hill.
Haven’t they already been in the US for a while now? I recall hearing about an infestation in Texas some time ago.
they used to be rampant in the southern States. a huge multinational effort pushed them back down south.
Was that something cut by doge?
More or less.
iirc, they fell behind during COVID, the increased funding and facility expansions needed to actively push them back down into the chokepoint never got approved, and the trump administration would rather spend 10x more moving all the infrastructure up to the US-Mexico border than do anything that would help other countries “for free” (even though they already chip in).
1/2 as Interesting also did a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olj8arvfYj4
My apocalypse bingo card is filling up fast.
Don’t worry, they’re dismantling all the monitoring agencies so these warnings will stop coming
Screwworm all out attack!
