What is it about?
The sterile insect technique might work for stink bugs.
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Why is it important?
There are few eradication tools for stink bugs. This work proposes release of mass reared sterile insects to do this, possibly in combination with the egg parasitoid.
Perspectives
This work was a successful collaboration between US and New Zealand researchers.
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: Irradiation biology of male brown marmorated stink bugs: is there scope for the sterile insect technique?, International Journal of Radiation Biology, November 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09553002.2017.1388547.
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