Posted on 06/23/2020 9:59:26 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
A plan to release 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida and Texas has been approved, The Guardian reported.
According to the plan, the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes will be released into the wild, as they contain a special protein that would kill female offspring, which are the ones who bite, and thus preventing the spread of such illnesses as dengue fever and Zika.
The mosquitoes released will all be male, which do not bite people and as such pose no risk to humans.
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What could possibly go wrong.
Maybe release in Africa instead?
mosquito lives matter
My very words. Every one hold your breath!!
How will that affect the Eco-System long term?
Mosquito Predators
https://www.orkin.com/other/mosquitoes/mosquito-predators
Lots of denge fever going around?
Someone has too !uch time and money.
What could go wrong?
But are they organically-grown mosquitoes? Being non-GMO just isn’t enough for the “purist palate”.
Mosquitos kill more people by spreading disease than any other “animal” on earth. Malaria typically kills half a million people a year. If you do not live or visit places where they are a major pain in the a$$ I guess that you can poke fun at attempts to get them under control.
they’re horrible along with knats. They kill off many rare bird species too.
The legend of the mosquitoes was passed down from generation to generation around the home camp fires. Still, everyone thought the story of the magical civilization of long ago was just a myth.
No one ever answered my question with certainty, whether they carry Covid.
Mosquito larvae are very important in aquatic ecology. Many other insects and small fish feed on them and the loss of that food source would cause their numbers to decline as well. Anything that feeds on them, such as game fish, raptorial birds, etc. would in turn suffer too
Thank you.
***poke fun***
I’m not a buggy driver but I play one on TV, right?
If you did not know that Bill Gates funded this project, you do now.
Eugenics anyone?
Why are you taking this at face value? Do you do that with everything?
>> The mosquitoes released will all be male
Toxic mascutoes...
From what I’m hearing, that may be a good idea for our
human mosquitoes. Young White women are all in from
what Rush has been saying.
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