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Originally Posted by O.P. Mater
I guess if all those males were sterile, it would solve the problem? Like the screw worms in Florida?
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Good point. Pickleworms have a built in vulnerability in that they die back to a limited area on a peninsula.
But the Screwworm was vulnerable to the sterile male technique, because;
"the technique centers on a unique reproductive handicap that prevents female
hominivorax flies from reproducing more than once in their life-spans."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochliomyia
I don't know if Pickleworms would have that handicap.
John