美国农业部为全美最大防螺旋蝇设施招聘228人：德州 Edinburg 工厂2027年投产
美国农业部11月10日宣布，将为位于德克萨斯州希达尔戈县 Edinburg 的新世界螺旋蝇无菌蝇生产设施招聘228名员工，本月起开放申请，应聘者可在 USAJobs.gov 在线申请，也可于11月17日至19日到 McAllen 的招聘会现场应聘，招聘经理将在现场面试。
该设施设在 Moore Air Base，将是美国本土第一座无菌蝇生产设施，厂房建设预计2027年4月完工，2027年先达到每周生产1亿只无菌蝇，满产后约每周3亿只。农业部长 Brooke L. Rollins 表示，防范新世界螺旋蝇是国家安全优先事项，新设施将大幅提升无菌蝇供应，把这种危害牲畜与野生动物的害虫挡在边境之外，投产进度比原计划提前近五年。
无菌昆虫技术是把螺旋蝇经辐照绝育后定点释放：雌蝇一生只交配一次，与无菌雄蝇交配产下的卵无法孵化，对动物与人没有风险。美国农业部目前资助的两座同类设施分别在巴拿马（每周1亿只）与墨西哥（2026年6月投产，满产每周1亿只）。招聘会地点为 McAllen 会议中心大使套房酒店（Embassy Suites by Hilton McAllen Convention Center），地址 800 Convention Center Blvd.，11月17日至19日每天上午8时至晚8时（中部时间）。
（来源：美国农业部）
USDA Begins Hiring 228 Workers for the Nation's Largest Screwworm Facility in Texas
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on November 10 that it will begin hiring 228 workers for the New World Screwworm Sterile Fly Production Facility in Edinburg, Hidalgo County, Texas, starting this month. Applicants can apply online at USAJobs.gov or attend a hiring event in McAllen, Texas, from November 17-19, where hiring managers will conduct on-site interviews.
Housed at Moore Air Base, the facility will be the first U.S.-based sterile fly production facility. Construction is to be completed in April 2027, with production expected to reach 100 million sterile flies per week in 2027 and about 300 million per week at full capacity. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins said protecting U.S. livestock and wildlife from New World Screwworm is a national security priority and that the facility will open nearly five years ahead of schedule.
The sterile insect technique raises screwworm flies and sterilizes them with irradiation before release in targeted areas. Because female screwworm flies mate only once, mating with sterile males produces eggs that do not hatch, and sterile flies pose no risk to animals or people. USDA currently funds two facilities in North America, in Panama, producing 100 million sterile flies per week, and in Mexico, which opened in June 2026 and is ramping up toward 100 million per week. The hiring event runs 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. CT, November 17-19, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton McAllen Convention Center, 800 Convention Center Blvd.
(Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture)
来源：美国农业部
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图片来源：图：新世界螺旋蝇幼虫特写，其口器上的獠状颚刺会啃食温血动物的活体组织。John Kucharski 摄，美国农业部农业研究局（ARS）公共领域图片（编号 K7576-1），经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Close-up of a New World screwworm larva. Photo by John Kucharski, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, public domain (image K7576-1), via Wikimedia Commons.
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