Releasing artificially sterilized singe-sex pests at scale is pretty effective. [0]
Tl;dr: Some species only mate once in individuals' lifetimes. Consequently, if that mating is with a sterile partner, no offspring will be produced. Thus severely limiting the size of the next generation.
Tl;dr: Some species only mate once in individuals' lifetimes. Consequently, if that mating is with a sterile partner, no offspring will be produced. Thus severely limiting the size of the next generation.
[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2946175/