Correction to: Parasites & Vectors (2022) 15:9 10.1186/s13071-021-05112-7
Following publication of the original article [1], the authors flagged an error in one of the values provided in the Methods subsection ‘Quality control of the sterile Ae. albopictus males’: where it should say “at 25 ± 2 °C”, it said “at 252 °C”.The published article has since been corrected.