Rubén Bueno Mari

New Capabilities

Overseeing weekly releases at the two Barcelona sites and the trap monitoring that will judge the pilot

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