The New World Screwworm (NWS) continues being a veterinarian and human problem in South America and part of the Caribbean. In order to update this matter based on the research of the last six years, the wealth of existing information was reviewed, and some results of the authors of this paper were...

The eradication of Cochliomyia hominivorax from Libya during December 1990-October 1992 is described. C. hominivorax was eradicated using the sterile insect technique (sterilized pupae were transported from the Mexican-US screwworm breeding plant in Mexico) in a campaign co-ordinated by the Animal...

This publication contains 11 contributions, as well as introductory and concluding remarks, from a symposium on the eradication of the calliphorid Cochliomyia hominivorax, a myiasis-producing agent of cattle and other livestock. The development of the sterile insect technique and its application in ...

The activities of the Mexico-American Screwworm Eradication Commission from its inception in 1972, and the progress made in eradicating the calliphorid Cochliomyia hominivorax in Mexico during 1977-84, are reviewed. In 1977, a total of 51 128 samples of larvae of C. hominivorax was collected from...

The incidence of cases of myiasis in cattle caused by larvae of Cochliomyia hominivorax in the south-western USA suggested a failure in the sterile male method of suppression in 1972-76. Estimates of sterile mating frequencies among native females during field trials conducted in Curaçao, Florida,...

Larvae of Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel) were collected near Aldama in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Third-instar, crawl-off larvae from 19 single-egg-masses were obtained from cattle and from 8 other single-egg-masses off sheep. Of the 6 chromosome pairs in this species, the sex, II, V and VI pairs were ...