Hundreds of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes set to be released into the Florida Keys

Daily Mail ^ | 18:01 EST, 6 December 2012 | Daily Mail Reporter

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A made for the SyFy channel movie in the making...

[HiTech RedNeck]

You mean they don’t want to put a permanent dent in world mosquito populations?

Who’d weep if mosquitoes became extinct?

[KC_Lion]

Can’t see this going wrong......

[rsobin]

Nothing can go wrong.

[hinckley buzzard]

This is a standard strategy for disease vectors like mosquitoes. Hope it works.

[lonevoice]

What could possibly go wrong?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Who’d weep if mosquitoes became extinct?

Bats. :)

[CGASMIA68]

This should be good.
Hope it works out better than the introduction of Melaleucas to help dry up water and have become an invasive....Not sure but I think Kudzu was another brain child of the gvmnt too?

[knarf]

There's something very creepy and dangerous about a government action, designed to kill living things, being let loose as an "experiment"

[Squawk 8888]

The problem is that the most effective pesticides against mosquitoes also kill bugs that are useful (like bees). This would be a useful experiment.

[Redcitizen]

Already done by Syfy in 2005 as Mansquito. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansquito

[Hammerhead]

someone post a ‘Food of the Gods’ (lame D grade 70s movie) picture stat!

[CGASMIA68]

Most animals have has a purpose.Some food for others,just say’en

[knarf]

Ask West Virginia about multi flora rose.

[xrmusn]

A made for the SyFy channel movie in the making..
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Have been infested with ‘stink bugs’ last couple of years and they inevitably get indoors- so the cats spot and stalk them and I capture them and flush them down the toilet.

BUT...have septic system and I get weird visions of mutant stink bugs coming out of the ground and REALLY overrunning the countryside.

[GeronL]

What could possibly go wrong?

*facepalm*

[GeronL]

remember when MTBE was the “solution”??

lolz

[gorush]

I killed a mosquito here in Wisconsin that had a tick on it.

[yarddog]

I remember a teacher telling our class back around 1960 that the University of Florida had ended a common animal disease caused by screwworms.

I am not sure he was right but he said they released millions of sterile flies of that type. Maybe they are doing something similar with mosquitoes.

[CGASMIA68]

Ask me I go through gallons of round up to control that crap on my 40+ acres here in the NE.
If I stay in Fl for a full year season and dont come up I am screwed.