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Sterile Insect Technique and Incompatible Insect Technique for the Integrated Drosophila suzukii Management

2020
The spotted wing Drosophila (SWD) vinegar fly, Drosophila suzukii, has become a significant global pest of a wide variety of commercial soft fruits. The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a species-specific method of population control that has been successfully used for the suppression or local eradication of several economically important insect pests.
Fabiana Sassù   +4 more
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The Sterile Insect Technique: A Theoretical Perspective

1986
We present a theoretical study of the management of a campaign to eradicate an invasive population of Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata (Wied.), by application of the sterile insect technique, or SIT. The model for the process consists of three interacting populations: wild females, released sterile males, and females in the rearing ...
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Okinawa Agriculture and the Sterile Insect Technique

Agricultural History
Abstract Bitter melon is a popular gourd vegetable native to Okinawa in Japan. However, because of the melon fly, a very damaging pest on the quarantine list, bitter melon could not be sold in mainland Japan until the fly was eradicated from Okinawa Prefecture in 1993 by using the nuclear-derived sterile insect technique (SIT).
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Sustainable vector/pest control using the permanent sterile insect technique

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 2020
Roumen Anguelov   +2 more
exaly  

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