females
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The New World Screwworm is a parasitic fly whose females lay eggs in open wounds and mucous membranes of living warm-blooded animals and people.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
Screwworms are parasitic flies whose females lay eggs in open wounds and mucous membranes on animals.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
The fly had been eradicated in the US thanks in large part by dropping millions of sterile flies to mate with wild females.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
The traps also revealed differences in emergence timing between males and females.
From Science Daily • May 28, 2026
He mated the x-rayed males with females and watched the maggots emerge in the milk bottles.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
