Consultants Meeting on Development of a Standard Planning and Design Format for New SIT Mass-Rearing Facilities, 20-24 April 2009, Vienna Austria

摘要

The first insect mass-rearing facility was built in Florida for screwworm fly in the late 1950s. Over these last five decades the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) has also progressed for other pest insects from the laboratory bench to the large scale "factory" level of sophistication. Facilities around the world have also been built for different insects (http://www.ididas.iaea.org/IDIDAS/default.htm) and they are all designed to produce mass-reared, sterile insects, but each one differs from the other in design and resource usage. Unfortunately, some facilities have been found to be deficient in design and resource use and, therefore, they needed considerable redesign or their cost-effectiveness for SIT has been less than optimal.