07-10-2014, 02:09 PM
There are at least 3 different competing GMO mosquitoes out there (use the google to learn more, at least one has already been released). The most promising is a modified male mosquito that can only produces male offspring, and the gene is passed along to following generations, so the result is eventually almost no mosquitoes. I think they said after 5 generations the population is reduced 85%.
I don't want this to degrade into a debate about frankencreatures (though I know it will) however places where mosquitoes didn't exist before man brought them, would be the ideal place to release these monsters, because eventually removing the larvae (food) from the water is only restoring nature to the way it used to be. It might even save several bird species from extinction since it would eliminate the avian malaria vector.
I don't want this to degrade into a debate about frankencreatures (though I know it will) however places where mosquitoes didn't exist before man brought them, would be the ideal place to release these monsters, because eventually removing the larvae (food) from the water is only restoring nature to the way it used to be. It might even save several bird species from extinction since it would eliminate the avian malaria vector.