[praptak]

Releasing the steriles blindly is not enough, you gotta monitor the pest too. This is prohibitively expensive in rainforests and other areas with poor infrastructure.

Okay, maybe you could release the flies in large enough numbers not to need monitoring but I guess it would also be prohibitively expensive.

[smegger001]

we could possibly use a gene drive to make males that would only produce male descendants in a handful of generation they would go extinct.

[nine_k]

It sort of worked with malaria mosquitoes.