title: The squatters and the blowflies.
abstract: Cutaneous myiasis in Australian sheep became an increasing problem in the early years of the 20th century after the import of the wrinkly Vermont Merinos and the introduction of Lucillia cuprina. WE Abbott, a successful pastoralist in New South Wales at that time, wrote a little-known and unusual description of early methods of control: a parody based on an episode in Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. The plight of struck sheep and the lives and times of Abbott, several other pastoralists and the entomologists of the New South Wales Department of Agriculture are illuminated as the Walrus and the Carpenter walk again across the hills and pastures of New South Wales.
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Abbott
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carroll
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Faragher
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001315:Australia; D004175:Diptera; D004772:Entomology / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009198:Myiasis / Q000266:history / Q000662:veterinary*; D012756:Sheep; D012757:Sheep Diseases / Q000266:history*