The sterile male technique is used for suppressing multiple species of insects, to great success: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique http

The sterile male technique is used for suppressing multiple species of insects, to great success: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8304793/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8304793/ Of particular note, billions of mosquitoes are created and utilized this way, and the eradication of extremely nasty flies from areas. In order for insects to evolve past this, there has to be a difference other than sterility, and already have some way to detect it. Even if that were the case, it would still force mosquitoes into a suboptimal state, consuming their energy and resources on supporting an less efficient and more finicky method of finding a viable mate vs what they normally are optimized to do. All traits have a cost, and need a viable evolutionary path to even have it show up. I hope we find a way to implement this technique in all the awful ticks that are expanding their range along with the diseases they carry. Hell I’m for straight up genetically engineering animals that ticks can’t survive on, if we can.