U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Commander Lt. Gen. William “Butch” Graham Jr. addresses those in attendance for a groundbreaking ceremony for the New World Screwworm Sterile Fly Production Facility. The ceremony, held under clear South Texas skies at Moore Air Base, marked the beginning of construction on the state-of-the-art facility designed to produce sterile screwworm flies as part of a proven biological control program for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The new facility will be constructed by Mortenson of Minneapolis, Minnesota, at a total project cost of $610 million. Once complete and fully operational, it will significantly enhance the nation’s ability to respond rapidly to any potential outbreak by producing and distributing approximately 300 million sterile flies per week to interrupt the pest’s reproductive cycle.
| Date Taken: | 04.17.2026 |
| Date Posted: | 04.21.2026 11:35 |
| Photo ID: | 9629275 |
| VIRIN: | 260417-A-XY212-1152 |
| Resolution: | 4673x3116 |
| Size: | 2.01 MB |
| Location: | EDINBURG, TEXAS, US |
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