Alphabet (Google) research project
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Breeding and sex-sorting the males in Miami and flying 80,000 a week to Barcelona
Barcelona has released more than 1.5 million male tiger mosquitoes carrying a bacterium called Wolbachia since mid-August. When these males mate with wild females, the eggs do not hatch, so the number of biting mosquitoes should fall. Rentokil and the Google-linked company Debug describe it as the first time the technique has been used at city scale in Europe.
Updated Oct 22
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