Sunday, December 9, 2018

How Google Plans to Kill the Mosquitos

From Bloomberg:
It was Dobson’s lab that figured out how to infect mosquitoes with a form of Wolbachia that’s different from the type of the bacteria that mosquitoes usually carry. That’s what makes the eggs unviable. MosquitoMate makes two species of mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia, A. aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Fresno became one of its test sites.
But don't mosquitos like everything else play an important part in the ecological balance?

Read the balance of nature myth here, here, and here.