Seems like it would be preferable to GM a mosquito which could reproduce without human blood bites. Whatever good the mosquitoes are doing, they could presumably do just as well without biting people, thus without being a vector for malaria. And without being a blamed nuisance generally.
"Seems like it would be preferable to GM a mosquito which could reproduce without human blood bites. Whatever good the mosquitoes are doing, they could presumably do just as well without biting people, thus without being a vector for malaria. And without being a blamed nuisance generally.” Actually, that’s sort of a description of the male mosquito, which doesn’t bite people. It’s only the females . . .So the choices for that issue would seem to be either to make females that don’t bite, or create masses of male mosquitoes who would fill the niche in competition with the females.