• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    Earlier this month, the California Department of Food and Agriculture quarantined 69 square miles of metro L.A. after invasive and destructive Mediterranean fruit flies were found at a home in the Leimert Park neighborhood.

    Now, officials are planning to use small planes to drop millions of the insects in an effort to eradicate them, SFGATE reports.

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      Now officials plan to release sterile male fruit flies in the area, to reduce the population of the invaders.

      Important point you missed in your comment.

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          Don’t let movies do your thinking for you. This is an effective eradication method that has been used successfully for many years.

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        1 year ago

        Lmao just saw ppl downvoting me. I was providing MORE context than the title because I was curious. What I pasted wasn’t “scary” to me and of course they aren’t going to just going to release a fuckton of fertile bugs to “eradicate” another bug.

        Yall are daft.