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Google requests permission to release 32m mosquitoes in California and Florida
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
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Didn't this already happen once, and it turned out that sterile mosquitoes aren't as sterile as they thought? I might (and hope to) be misremembering.
Not to worry, they're using AI to sort the mosquitoes, so they totally won't accidentally release a bunch of super-females with extra disease carrying capacity and ultra-fecundity, because they specifically told the AI not to do that...
Trust me, bro.
-Google, probably
and the wild species, breed faster than normal to compensate too.