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screwworm /screw·worm/ (skroo´werm) the larva of Cochliomyia hominivorax.

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Amblyomma worm			One museum scientist's knowledge of screwworms helped stop an outbreak among cattle in Africa dead in its tracks--an outbreak that might have devastated much of the continent's wildlife. Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Perkins, Sid / Science News Also use the waning moon for hunting potato leafhoppers, cucumber beetles, corn borers, mites, bean-leaf beetles, fleas, lice, ticks, screwworms and fly maggots. Poor Will's Countryside Almanack for late spring and early summer 2007 by Countryside & Small Stock Journal Under the proposal to Parliament, government would buy millions of sexually sterile screwworm flies, which mate with the natural flies but don't produce offspring, effectively short-circuiting the pest's reproductive cycle. Plan to eradicate screwworms by Caribbean Update			scratch scratch test scratches scratching screamer's nodule screen screen memory screen, intensifying screen, oral screening screening colonoscopy screening facility screening test Screw screw artery screw clamp screw twitch screw, expansion screw, implant screw-neck screw-retained screw-tail screw-worm screwdriver screwup screwworm scrib- scribe Scribner shunt SCRIP SCRIPPS script script file script- scripting scRNA scrobic scrobiculate scrofula scrofuloderma scrofulous scrofulous keratitis scroll bone scroll ear Scrophularia aquatica Scrophularia ningpoensis Scrophularia nodosa scrotal scrotal cancer scrotal exploration scrotal hernia			Screwpump screws screws screws screws screws around screws around screws around screws out screws out screws out screws over screws over screws over screws round screws round screws round screws up screws up screws up screws up courage screws up courage screwstock Screwthread Screwthread Screwthread screwtop ScrewTurn Wiki screwup screwup screwworm Screwworm Emergency Centre for North Africa screwworm fly screwy Screy Screy Screy Screy SCRF SCRFA SCRFC SCRFE SCRFI SCRFMO SCRFU SCRG SCRGSP SCRH SCRHA SCRI SCRIA Scriabin Scriabin Scriabin, Aleksandr Scriabin, Aleksandr (Nikolaevich) Scriabin, Aleksandr (Nikolaevich) Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich SCRIB scrib-

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