[maxerickson]

The technique has been used against other species of insects since ~1950.

There should be a horror story by now.

[thaumasiotes]

Horror story? The "horror story" would be "the insects are still around".

[maxerickson]

Indeed, I was being flip. It's actually been successful at eradicating populations of insects, rather rapidly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sterile_insect_techniq...

[thaumasiotes]

I see that "eradication" has been declared in most of those trials, but I also see that formal "eradication" is often followed by renewal of the trial, recovery of the population, or "complete eradication". I'm forced to conclude that "eradication" in this context does not have its usual meaning.

That said, it does look like this is usually a pretty successful method of ongoing population suppression.