To: Olog-hai
This looks like a great application of GMO.
Mosquitoes are not food, so there is little concern with poisoning the food supply or with a mono-crop of mosquitoes causing a mosquito shortage. (Unless you believe an abundance of mosquitoes is critical to the ecosystem.)
And this technology replaces insecticides. I am far more bothered by a government crony getting $ billions to force-medicate me with their patented insecticides.
The main risk is that something goes wrong and we get a super strain of Killer Mosquitoes.
19 posted on
01/25/2015 10:23:35 AM PST by
UnwashedPeasant
(A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
To: UnwashedPeasant
There are other concerns, like mosquitoes such as this being consumed by bats (who are vital pollinators) and affecting the bats’ health in some way. That would affect the food supply.
20 posted on
01/25/2015 10:29:35 AM PST by
Olog-hai
To: UnwashedPeasant
Of course they are food. That is the point. They serve their role in the food chain to further along other species that benefit the desired outcome of the life cycle. They have also served to kill off millions of humans which is also part of that cycle. Nature abhors a vacuum, some other participant will fill that role in killing off persons, or other organisms.
22 posted on
01/25/2015 10:34:14 AM PST by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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