Nippling's Screw Worm Experiment

In 1951, Nippling ran his first real-world experiment with sterile flies on Sanibel Island off Florida. The population sank a little, but it never dropped to zero, despite months of labor. In 1954, an outbreak of screw worms began ravaging the island of Coraçao off Venezuela. Goats there were dropping like, well, flies and the rural population faced starvation.