Posted on 04/11/2022 5:26:11 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Californians may not know it on sight, but there’s going to be something different about their mosquitoes this summer. An invasive species of the bite-prone insects has been genetically modified in an attempt at controlling disease spread.
According to Smithsonian, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved plans by biotech firm Oxitec to release 2.4 billion male Aedes aegypti mosquitos in both California and Florida that have been altered so their genes can only participate in producing surviving male offspring. (Females will die before reaching adulthood.) The insects will be introduced as eggs, which will then hatch when exposed to water.
Because male mosquitoes do not bite, the theory is that a declining female mosquito population will reduce transmission of Zika, yellow fever, dengue, and other infectious diseases that can be passed on to humans from the bites. The goal is halting outbreaks before they begin.
In 2021, Oxitec released 144,000 genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. The insects have also been introduced in Brazil, the Cayman Islands, Panama, and India. While there is no spread of such diseases in California, the firm says a growing mosquito population could eventually pose a problem and that such pilot programs are necessary to assess effectiveness.
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Hope someone does a deep dive on the company and its parent.
Bet the results of that would be interesting.
Oh, HELL no!
Same thing will happen at Disney World and on all public skrewel grounds in Florida.
Indeed she does, but they're in DC, not Pensacola.
They’ll learn to vote.
That reminds me of a classic movie, probably still in Black and White: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
I still recall those scenes when the main character had shrunk down to be smaller than a peach pit. As he wandered in his garden, still dazed from the ‘experiment’ he was stalked and attacked by a hungry Sparrow. He later had to fight off a Cat by swinging and jabbing a pencil for defence.
Fine by me. A lot of our food chain is genetically modified. If it kills off mosquitoes in populated areas, bully go for it.
Run for your lives if Eugenicist Gates has anything to do with “projects.”
Bill Gates-Funded Firm Released 150,000 Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In The Wild...in the wild turns out to be in then USA.
Yeah. These are Liberals we’re talking about. they don’t give a rats ass about destroying ecosystems.
Feel good now, see consequences later. It’s a mental disorder and we let mental patients run the house.
Wait a second. Do you mean science CAN tell the difference between male and female?
in an attempt at controlling disease spread, lets try this again, “in an attempt to see how to spread disease” another delivery system
Exactly. Once they are out in nature, they will mutate.
Dragon Flies and bats hardest hit
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Oh Lord,
What could possibly go wrong with this?/s
Bats can eat even more.
Of course they are, whatever they are putting into the sky via Jets is drying out foliage. Something that is a dessicant for sure. It has never rained more where I live, than in the last 10 years. Yet the trees seem to get burnt, like they survived horrible droughts. Look around if you are in places like Western Washington, Oregon or parts of California. Pine, Redwoods, Hemlock, and Firs easily tolerate temps to 100 degrees in the summer months. They just seem to dry out much more than they did in my youth.
Sounds cool, I’ll have to check it out.
If you like science fiction, you’ll love that book.
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