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Field Suppression of Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) (
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- Population structure, gene flow and genetic diversity of sheep blowfly (Lucilia cuprina dorsalis) in Australia.BMC genomics · 2025Article
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- Transmission of yeast and bacterial symbionts between sexual partners inRoyal Society open science · 2025Article
- A fast and reliable larval sampling method for improving the monitoring of fruit flies in soft and stone fruits.Journal of economic entomology · 2024Article
- Neotropical Flora's Contribution to the Development of Biorational Products for Drosophila suzukii Control.Neotropical entomology · 2024Review
- CRISPR/Cas9-based split homing gene drive targetingProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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- Modeling-informed Engineered Genetic Incompatibility strategies to overcome resistance in the invasiveFrontiers in insect science · 2022Article
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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Drosophila suzukii (spotted wing drosophila—SWD) is an economically important pest of soft and stone fruit worldwide. Control relies on broad-spectrum insecticides, which are neither fully effective nor environmentally sustainable. The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a proven, effective and environmentally friendly pest-management tool. Here, we investigated, for the first time, the potential of using SIT to control D. suzukii in field conditions without physical barriers that limit insect invasion. A proprietary method of rearing and irradiation with X-rays was used to obtain males that were > 99% sterile. Sterile males were released twice per week from April to October 2021 on a site in Kent, UK, where everbearing strawberries were grown in open polytunnels. The infestation of wild female D. suzukii was monitored weekly using red sticky traps with dry lure at the treated site and at two similar control sites that did not receive sterile male releases. Releases of sterile males suppressed the wild female D. suzukii population by up to 91% in comparison with the control sites. We thus demonstrated the feasibility of SIT to achieve season-long control of D. suzukii using early, sustained and dynamically targeted releases of sterile males. This provides a promising environmentally friendly method to control this important pest.
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