#IDedicateThisWeekTo Edward Knipling, an American entomologist, who..received the 1992 World Food Prize for ,developing the sterile insect technique for eradicating or suppressing the threat posed by pests to the livestock and crops that contribute to the world's food supply. 
Edward Knipling's contributions included the parasitoid augmentation technique, insect control methods involving the medication of the hosts, and various models of total insect population management. Knipling was best known as the inventor of the sterile insect technique (SIT).
The New York Times Magazine proclaimed on January 11, 1970, that Edward “Knipling...has been credited by some scientists as having come up with 'the single most original thought in the 20th century.'"
With the help of insect geneticists, insect nutritionists, and insect behaviorists, insects might be reared under conditions that will make them equally, if not more, vigorous and more adaptable to the environment than the wild population.
Edward Knipling
Edward Knipling
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