Reducing fruit fly infestation by 90% requires dropping 24 million (350 pounds of) sterilized flies every day throughout the growing season. The plane is traveling at 160mph, but the fruit flies must obviously survive this, since the program is successful.
4:01 this achieves one sterile male every 40 m²
And here's a similar program to eradicate only the dangerous mosquitoes. See 5:54 in
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