Highlights•The sterile insect technique has been effective against many pest insect
species.•This environmentally friendly method is being resurrected for mosquito …

Abstract Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) and tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) are
bloodsucking vectors of human and animal pathogens. Mosquito-borne diseases (malaria …

Simple Summary The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a species-specific and environment-
friendly method of insect control that relies on the release of large numbers of sterile insects …

Simple Summary The Insect Pest Control (IPC) Section and its associated laboratory (IPCL)
is part of the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture. Its …

Background Management of large quantities of eggs will be a crucial aspect of the efficient
and sustainable mass production of mosquitoes for programmes with a Sterile Insect …

When EF Knipling conceived of the release of sexually sterile insects to suppress wild
populations, he laid down several fundamental qualities that characterized suitable target …

The enormous burden placed on populations worldwide by mosquito-borne diseases, most
notably malaria and dengue, is currently being tackled by the use of insecticides sprayed in …

Weather and land use can significantly impact mosquito abundance and presence, and by
consequence, mosquito-borne disease (MBD) dynamics. Knowledge of vector ecology and …

Mosquito-borne diseases are responsible for more than a million human deaths every year.
Modern mosquito control strategies such as sterile insect technique (SIT), release of insects …

More than three thousand million people live with the risk of malaria. Due to the widespread
resistance of mosquitoes to insecticides and of parasites to chemotherapies, previous gains …