As far as I am aware, mosquitoes don’t respect international boundaries. If you use this method to eliminate mosquitoes in some random African country, it would just spread to their neighbours.
You might find some points of interest and I didn’t actually read the paper.
One point of interest here might be that the farther distance migration of mosquitos seems to be either wind driven or cases of human transportation. The current state of transportation with more controls on what is carried might slow the speed or wide spread. But in a number of less developed placed that probably will not come into play much and so be an aid in the spread.
Some other urls I looked at, just standard google search, seemed to say most mosquitos will (intentionally) only fly a few miles (3 to 7 were the specific numbers I saw mentioned) from its breeding location during its lifetime.
As far as I am aware, mosquitoes don’t respect international boundaries. If you use this method to eliminate mosquitoes in some random African country, it would just spread to their neighbours.
Great.
My point entirely ;) I realize that was not clear.
Do we know how much a mosquito travels during its lifetime to be able to estimate how fast such a process would happen?
https://watermark.silverchair.com/jmedent34-0579.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAs4wggLKBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggK7MIICtwIBADCCArAGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQM1xIZAq-P1upCUxTqAgEQgIICgRPaCHzDQucQg4LREXdQQY8CzcR8U58Z3CLCq5WwoOrrln2fJLa5eGSJxphOwlgD8E13pMFV48Py8cPgSzTbTiZhCf0-wEHIUbjYki6N3-3yKZbUTrW4D4mx1BPU37NcQLimorVzL6lhsOz6IGNB-ItbsNdKfuaQ2aromn3AZeR93VAuVN5O9a98mLtX1P5AQNTOnOBikeRHeDb7uWrPpLTCTbw1jwxREvtMh8wYTfqXbW-mqlIaR8Uq6BPjCcMSyZi96OAeh73FNbuVA8EMPIvK1Wezwnns81xk2qEmyk6gncyYZERXCv2lKgoKznyAzVDUWRCrR8FVOt9T0xp9aKoDfbpev8PnJrpCJmPPv6yGJqOoNP951xJz-o64zglTbXjTkqD3esR2uu3kAdUFSG4d7RkRSh-DBLlN-kJU2cDkqBJA7B1uRrALfsrltEe2sm8I7wdl_TtiUW5zG8hzOXMUVd0QKNlPfYH9SDfSNQDX0WS39IHw5TOCTFbZMY5PLOeQFJZB-xCFQFUJvsno2nMWvL2zpJeMbeqG8rJr0x6xg8-4ggwz9urSBIH4jMH5BLTGGle9nJLUqExZQj0LAIJRvcxrs1VQkhWCSbK_q73UVNxLRJRvr4F6pm1f3BzEQMgVBF7xs7DvcFROsw8PHgcMMclG6kDbIZbwxA5sXlAOxk2tQVClE4AxTlWZTOhkO6rfPakU7ShCr0RyYcMNB51CaT-uLlGBsrjx6SSfGpfrgvqGBV8zzRM-J77-RFP9s2lzaWGOXGbU4cgwp8as7823wdkg4ICPjdHIOp20JHVojL__7edxkrNJnquGPEON_KS9S3YXoo7FE6yHqqH9LHE6
(that is a big link!)
You might find some points of interest and I didn’t actually read the paper.
One point of interest here might be that the farther distance migration of mosquitos seems to be either wind driven or cases of human transportation. The current state of transportation with more controls on what is carried might slow the speed or wide spread. But in a number of less developed placed that probably will not come into play much and so be an aid in the spread.
Some other urls I looked at, just standard google search, seemed to say most mosquitos will (intentionally) only fly a few miles (3 to 7 were the specific numbers I saw mentioned) from its breeding location during its lifetime.
They don’t move very fast by themselves but can when helped by human transportation (source : some post doc at my lab worked on this a few years ago).