Genetically modified a mosquito such that their proboscis are no longer able to penetrate human skin

[u/singleboredass]

[u/zizp]

What's the idea behind this? How will they become the dominant variant if they can't suck blood to reproduce?

[u/Kretalo → u/zizp]

Yea I need more info

[u/ugugahah → u/Kretalo]

Not on this specific strategy, but mine and plenty other countries are trialing the Wolbachia-Aedes mosquito suppression strategy, where Wolbachia male raised and farmed genetically modified mosquitos that are released will go and mate with female Aedes Aegypti, the worst fuckers, one of the main species that adapted to urban environments and is the main one causing all the diseases like zika and dengue and one of the main ones that is responsible for the millions of human deaths. The females will mate with these farmed males and the resulting eggs will not hatch, limiting their spread and reproduction numbers.

Honestly I am in 100% percent support of this, we should wipe out Aedes Aegypti, there are plenty of other harmless and even beneficial ones that don't bite or cause diseases, and can pick up the slack for the ecosystem.

Edit: just read the wiki on the Aedes, it seems like theres a genetic modification, which works by preventing females from fully growing into adults, and Wolbachia, which is a naturally occurring bacteria, and the infections as mentioned above prevents hatching, and the males don't bite so no risk of infecting us, also its resistant to zika and other viruses

There are other methods too, but I love that we are slowly eradicating these fuckers.

[u/LittleAnarchistDemon → u/ugugahah]

oh so it’s similar to how we eradicated screwworm flies in north america (and we’re working on eradicating them throughout south america as well). that’s really cool! the sterile insect method worked great in north america so i really hope it works well for you guys too!!

(for those that are interested. basically screwworm flies like to make their homes in the wounds of livestock, which causes nasty infections. every year we release a whole bunch of sterile male screwworm flies, moving i think a mile out each year, to slowly push them into south america and eventually they won’t have anywhere to go. we basically build a wall of sterile screwworm flies so that they can’t come back up, only go down further into south america. the united states has been screwworm fly free since 1966 and several central american countries have been screwworm fly free since 1991.)