French Guiana

The satellite is due to be launched at 10:15 BST from ESA's Kourou station in French Guiana.

If the preceding description wasn't enough, the screwworm's scientific name, Cochliomyia hominivorax, hints at how much we really, truly don't want it back — hominivorax translates as "man-eater," and refers to observations of a 1858 screwworm outbreak among prisoners on Devil’s Island in French Guiana.

Given that scientists keep finding new species of cockroach, even in highly-sampled areas, that seems more than likely: Evangelista's lab is at work describing species unknown to science from Guyana, an area of pristine and biodiverse forests that are relatively understudied, as well as from neighboring French Guiana, already known as a cockroach diversity hot spot in South America.

The discovery was made through the DNA analysis of pollen attached to butterflies found in French Guiana in South America, that was found to have originated in Africa.

Riding the waves of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean, it will be in French Guiana on June 9 before hitting New Caledonia on June 11.