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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.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2946175/






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