“…After mating, females of many fruit flies exhibit greatly reduced sexual receptivity including medflies (Chapman, Takahisa, Smith, & Partridge, ; Jang, ; Kraaijeveld & Chapman, ; Mossinson & Yuval, ; Nakagawa, Farias, Suda, Cunningham, & Chambers, ; Vera, Cladera, Calcagno, Vilardi, & McInnis, ), melon flies (Kuba & Itô, ; Miyatake, Chapman, & Partridge, ), olive fruit flies (Cavalloro & Delrio, ; Tsiropoulos & Tzanakakis, ), oriental fruit flies (Landolt, ) and Q‐flies (Barton‐Browne, ; Harmer, Radhakrishnan, & Taylor, ; Radhakrishnan, Pérez‐Staples, Weldon, & Taylor, ; Radhakrishnan & Taylor, , ). SIT can be compromised if females of a pest population that mate with sterile males remate with fertile males and are thence able to produce offspring (Collins, Pérez‐Staples, & Taylor, ; Kraaijeveld & Chapman, ).…”