Talk:Sterile insect technique

A fact from Sterile insect technique appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 August 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the sterile insect technique has been successfully used to fight malaria?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/August.

Wikipedia

Biology Low‑importance

	Biology portal Sterile insect technique is part of the WikiProject Biology, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to biology on Wikipedia. Leave messages on the WikiProject talk page.BiologyWikipedia:WikiProject BiologyTemplate:WikiProject BiologyBiology articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Insects Mid‑importance

	Insects portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Insects, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of insects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.InsectsWikipedia:WikiProject InsectsTemplate:WikiProject InsectsInsects articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Medicine Low‑importance

	Medicine portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Medicine, which recommends that medicine-related articles follow the Manual of Style for medicine-related articles and that biomedical information in any article use high-quality medical sources. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine.MedicineWikipedia:WikiProject MedicineTemplate:WikiProject Medicinemedicine articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Development[edit]

Literally no sources listed for the development of this technique. How is it an entire section crucial to the page goes unsourced or annotated? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.6.198.197 (talk) 14:39, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled[edit]

How does one separate the males from the females? By hand? Paul Studier 23:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

SIT & RIDL[edit]

If the RIDL male mosquito is not sterile why would it be included on this page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.115.111.77 (talk) 16:17, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]