Georgios Balatsos, Vasileios Karras, Arianna Puggioli, Fabrizio Balestrino, Romeo Bellini, Dimitrios P Papachristos, Panagiotis G Milonas, Nikos T Papadopoulos, Marco Malfacini, Marco Carrieri, Apostolos Kapranas, Wadaka Mamai, George Mastronikolos, Ioanna Lytra, Jérémy Bouyer, Antonios Michaelakis
The sterile insect technique (SIT) involves releasing large numbers of sterile males to outcompete wild males in mating with females, leading to a decline in pest populations. In the current study, we conducted a suppression trial in Greece against the invasive dengue vector mosquito Aedes albopictus (Skuse) through the weekly release of sterile males for 22 weeks from June to September 2019. Our approach included the long-distance transport of sterile mosquitoes, and their release at a density of 2,547 ± 159 sterile males per hectare per week as part of an area-wide integrated pest management strategy (AW-IPM)...
2024: Parasite: Journal de la Société Française de Parasitologie