Port Augusta's sterile insects help contain Loxton outbreak

Amy Green
May 6 2019 - 12:00pm
FLY FIGHT: The use of Port Augusta's Sterile Insect Technology (SIT) played a key role in eliminating wild flies from the Loxton outbreak area.
FLY FIGHT: The use of Port Augusta's Sterile Insect Technology (SIT) played a key role in eliminating wild flies from the Loxton outbreak area.

QUEENSLAND fruit flies have been eradicated from the Riverland two months after millions of sterile fruit flies from the Port Augusta based National Sterile Insect Technology were released into the region.

Amy Green

Amy Green

Senior Journalist

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