Eradication of new pests can avoid ongoing management costs. Although predominantly employed for suppression, classical biological control (CBC) may support eradication attempts, but also may cause non-target impacts in the long term. While CBC is potentially less costly than other approaches, complete eradication is difficult, especially when pests can sustain their populations at low levels. The sterile insect technique (SIT) involves the mass-rearing and release of sterilised insects to disrupt fecundity. This has proven to be synergistic with the release of biological control agents such as egg parasitoids. Here we describe a newly conceptualised tool, the ‘Kamikaze Wasp Technique’ (KWT), which uses a novel combination of CBC and SIT in an eradication to avoid impacts on non-target organisms. This technique proposes the release of sterile parasitoids, as irradiating mated female parasitoids can induce sterility without inhibiting their ability to kill the host. Future work should characterise the irradiation biology of parasitoids. Halyomorpha halys Stål (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) and its natural enemy, Trissolcus japonicus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae), provide a model system for assessing the potential of the KWT.

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将不育昆虫技术与不育经典生物控制剂的释放相结合以根除：神风黄蜂技术可行吗？

消除新的有害生物可以避免持续的管理费用。尽管主要用于抑制，但经典的生物控制（CBC）可能支持根除尝试，但从长远来看也可能造成非目标影响。尽管CBC的成本可能低于其他方法，但要彻底根除是很困难的，尤其是当虫害能够维持其低水平种群时。不育昆虫技术（SIT）涉及大量繁殖和释放已灭菌的昆虫以破坏繁殖力。事实证明，这与释放生物控制剂（如卵类寄生虫）具有协同作用。在这里，我们描述了一种新概念化的工具，即“神风黄蜂技术”（KWT），该工具使用了CBC和SIT的新颖组合来消除对非目标生物的影响。由于辐照交配的雌性寄生虫可在不抑制其杀死宿主能力的情况下进行辐照，因此该技术建议释放无菌的寄生虫。未来的工作应该表征寄生虫的辐射生物学。Halyomorpha halysStål（Hemiptera：Pentatomidae）及其天敌Trissolcus japonicus Ashmead（Hymenoptera：Scelionidae）提供了一个评估KWT潜力的模型系统。