Hormone therapy for fruit flies means better pest control
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 - 19:00
in Biology & Nature
Released en masse, sterile Mexican fruit flies can undermine a wild population of the fruit-damaging pests so that fewer applications of insecticide are needed. But the irradiation used to sterilize the flies weakens them, hindering their ability to outcompete wild-type males for female mates.