Competitiveness of Busulfan-fed Sterile vs. Native Male Boll Weevils 13

Field cage tests to evaluate the competitiveness between busulfan-fed sterile males of a laboratory strain and fertile males of a field-collected strain were conducted. The field-collected males mated with 66.2% of the released field-collected females and the sterile males mated with 27.0%; 6.8% of the females had apparently mated with both sterile and fertile males.