To manage populations, scientists raise a lot of sterile male insects. They then release these males in numbers that overwhelm their wild counterparts. The idea is that females that mate with ...

Releasing sterile male mosquitoes reduced the population of invasive pests in parts of Southern California by up to about 82%, studies found. Some vector control officials say bringing the ...

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 ...

These sterile, genetically modified male mosquitoes are then released in the wild, where they mate with females. And because the male is sterile, these unions don’t produce more mosquitoes.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with scientific director Solomon Birhanie about his efforts to fight mosquitoes in Southern California by releasing sterile male mosquitoes into the population.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Mosquitos spread viruses that cause potentially deadly diseases such as Zika, dengue fever and yellow fever. New U.S. Army-funded research uses gene editing to ...

Sterile male methods involve releasing large numbers of infertile male insects to cause a population crash. The Guangzhou trial is the latest of many to show that several variants of such methods ...

That gives those who would control these pests an opportunity. A female that mates with a sterile male will have no offspring. Arrange for enough such matings to occur and the result will be fewer ...

Millions of sterile male blowflies will be bred and released to mate with females in a flystrike eradication trial on Kangaroo Island. Flystrike causes animal suffering and costs the Australian ...