Posted 9/10/2025 11:29 (#11360671 - in reply to #11360667) Subject: You stop them by creating sterile males.
To eliminate screwworm, the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is used, which involves releasing massive numbers of irradiated, sterilized male screwworm flies into a target area
. These sterile males mate with wild female flies, but no offspring are produced, causing the screwworm population to progressively decline and eventually die out.
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