{"id":217562,"date":"2025-07-10T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/billions-of-flies-to-be-dumped-out-of-planes-in-an-effort-to-fight-flesh-eating-maggot-known-as-man-eater"},"modified":"2025-07-10T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:12:01","slug":"billions-of-flies-to-be-dumped-out-of-planes-in-an-effort-to-fight-flesh-eating-maggot-known-as-man-eater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/billions-of-flies-to-be-dumped-out-of-planes-in-an-effort-to-fight-flesh-eating-maggot-known-as-man-eater","title":{"rendered":"Billions of flies to be dumped out of planes in an effort to fight flesh-eating maggot known as \u201cman-eater\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/billions-of-flies-to-be-dumped-out-of-planes-in-an-effort-to-fight-flesh-eating-maggot-known-as-man-eater.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The move is part of the government\u2019s plans for protecting the U.S. from the New World screwworm fly, which could devastate its beef industry and even kill household pets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move is part of the government\u2019s plans for protecting the U.S. from the New World screwworm fly, which could devastate its beef industry and even kill household pets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}