ALAN LESHNER: The Department of Agriculture had a grant studying the sex life of the screwworm.

艾伦·莱斯纳：农业部拨款研究螺旋虫的性生活。

SIT has been used in North America to eliminate screwworm flies, an agricultural pest, and to suppress several species of crop-munching fruit flies.

SIT已在北美被用于消灭螺旋蝇(一种农业害虫)并抑制几种吃庄稼的果蝇。

Every week the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Panamanian government drop sterilised screwworms, a parasitic flesh-eating fly larva that feeds on livestock, out of a plane on the Panama-Colombia border in order to stop the creatures from breeding.

每周，美国农业部和巴拿马政府都会在巴拿马和哥伦比亚边境用飞机投放绝育的螺旋虫（一种苍蝇幼虫，寄生且吃牲畜的活体组织），以阻止这种生物的繁殖。