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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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I'm in favor of anything that gets us closer to making mosquitos extinct. Either the ecosystem adapts, or it's now on an only-slightly-steeper nose dive toward total collapse than it is anyway with the amount of non-mosquito related damage we're causing every day.
Like, if we're fucked anyway, let's be fucked in the relative comfort of a world without mosquitos!
Iirc they've done several impact studies and determined that wiping out the species that bites humans wouldn't have a significant impact.
another one will easily take its place since there is more than 1 that can trasmit certain viruses, aedis ageypti is the one that transmits the most viruses. malaria usually only spread by anopholes mosquitoes.
Don't tell Mr Bubbles. He's relying on that cover story.
Only two species really, the rest are important pollinators. But big fuck A. Ægypti