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Plan to strike out blowflies

EVERY sheep producer in north-west Victoria will have their eyes on a project releasing millions of sterile male blowflies on Kangaroo Island to see whether it will suppress the blowfly reproduction rate and population – and by default the incidence of flystrike.

The release of masses of sterile male insects into the wild to mate with the females and thus reduce the next generation’s population is a method of biological insect control which has been succe

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