Fruit fly fight goes hi-tech

SUNRAYSIA skies could soon be filled with sterile Queensland fruit fly as a measure to eradicate the pest from the region. But this will only happen if the region reduces the fruit fly population enough to use advanced technology – the sterile insect technology (SIT). The SIT process involves the release – sometimes by plane […]

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