HomeMy WebLinkAbout00 - Council AnnouncementsSterile Insect Technique: Irradiation
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Mass -rearing of _
insects takes place
in special facilities Male and female
insects are separated. The sterile mate
Ionizing radiation is insects are released
used to sterilize the in neighborhoods
male insects
Key Benefits of SIT:
Using this specific SIT method would reduce the
_ population of the invasive Aedes mosquito
using an environmental I"ound method.
These females lay
The sterile male eggs that are
mosquitoes compete infertile and bear no
with wild males to offspring reducing
mate with females the mosquito
population
The SIT technique results in no offspring and a
declining pest population, reducing the
presence of the specific breed of virus -
spreading mosquitoes.
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