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).

In the context of an area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) applied to tsetse flies that are vectors of African Trypanosomosis (AT), which remains one of the major constraints to agriculture ...

Cyprus this month released the first batch of 100,000 sterile mosquitos to begin the implementation of a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) project ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...