This will NOT end well!
they were approved for release June 2020 in Florida and Texas
When Oxitec dropped GM mosquitoes in Brazil the offspring didn’t always die, according to independent researchers. Their study concluded parts of the gene alteration had unexpectedly migrated into the target population of local mosquitoes and the GM mosquitoes were equally suitable as carriers of infectious diseases as the mosquitos were before the experiment. To make matters worse, about 18 months after the experiment ended the mosquito population returned to what it had been before.
Whoops!