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Battling mosquitoes with a sterile insect program

Summary by KIFI
By Sarah Mankowitz Click here for updates on this story     LEHIGH ACRES, Florida (WBBH) — Lee County Mosquito Control is one of the only places in the world using a sterile insect technique to control mosquitoes. “We actually mass rear Aedes aegypti in the lab and sterilize them in our X-ray machines and then release sterile males into the field, which go and reproduce with females that are occurring out in the wild. And then that helps lower t…

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KIFI broke the news in Idaho Falls, United States on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
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