• stray@pawb.social
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    I think that would wipe out the target species if it were effective. I know they have GMO mosquitoes whose bodies will kill particular pathogens rather than spread them, and I feel like that’s a safer idea. But maybe the species which target humans aren’t ecologically important; I don’t really know.

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      It only wipes them out in the area of release. Because they’re sterile, they can’t spread to other regions.

      From what I’ve seen they’ve only been used on introduced mosquito species which are less likely to have much impact on native ecosystems anyway. Most of the mosquitoes that live in cities are introduced cosmopolitan species.

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        Because they’re sterile, they can’t spread to other regions.

        That really should have been obvious, lol.