Female screw-worm flies mate four to five days after hatching. The entire life cycle is approximately twenty days. A female can lay up to 3,000 eggs and fly up to 200 km (125 miles) during her life.
Belize ramping up prevention strategy as New World Screw Worm detected 45 miles across the border ...
The dreaded NWS is a fly larva that burrows into its host ... a facility down in Panama where it grows around 20 million ...