The New World screwworm, a devastating livestock pest that feeds on living animal tissue, was eradicated from U.S. soil using a groundbreaking technique known as the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT).

Sterile mosquitoes are being used to suppress mosquitoes that have become resistant to insecticide in Fort Myers, Florida in the United States of America. The pilot project is being carried out with ...

The Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District is launching a new pilot program called Sterile Insect Technique (SIT). The program will release "X-ray sterilized male" mosquitoes in Los ...

LEHIGH ACRES, Florida (WBBH) — Lee County Mosquito Control is one of the only places in the world using a sterile insect technique to control mosquitoes. “We actually mass rear Aedes aegypti in the ...

For the first time, researchers in Canada have investigated the use of the sterile insect technique for controlling populations of the pepper weevil, Anthonomus eugenii, an economically significant ...

If you're trying to disperse 300,000 disease-fighting mosquitos per day, using a drone may well be your best bet for doing so. The technology has already been tested in Brazil, where it showed very ...

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More mosquitoes will be buzzing through the Los Angeles County area − but it's meant to make things better, not worse. Officials have launched a new pilot program called Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) ...