HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The sterile insect technique, or SIT for short, is among the most environment-friendly insect pest control methods ever developed. Irradiation, such as with gamma rays and X-rays, is used to sterilize mass-reared insects so that, while they remain sexually competitive, they cannot produce offspring.

Detailed explanation-2: -A most well-known and proven GC method is the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), which entails the continuous mass-release of irradiation-sterilized males of a given species to produce infertile matings in the field, leading to the decline of the target population over time.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Sterile Insect Technique Mating of released sterile males with native females leads to a decrease in the females’ reproductive potential and ultimately, if males are released in sufficient numbers over a sufficient period of time, to the local elimination or suppression of the pest population.

Detailed explanation-4: -The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a technique in which a large number of sterilized insects is released to reduce mating between fertile wild counterparts. This technique was reported to successfully eradicate the New World screwworm, the tsetse fly, melon fruit fly, Queensland fruit fly, pink bollworm, etc.

Detailed explanation-5: -As early as 1937, E. F. Knipling had conceived an approach to insect control in which the natural reproductive processes of the screwworm fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax Coquerel) are disrupted by chemical or physical mechanisms thus rendering the insects sterile (Knipling 1985).