The issue is that crashing the mosquito population doesn’t work if even a few of them survive to repopulate—the plan needs indefinite maintenance, and the mosquitoes will eventually evolve to avoid our lab-bred dud males.
Why do you think mosquitos that carry malaria didn’t repopulate the US and Europe after they were first driven out?
Why do you think mosquitos that carry malaria didn’t repopulate the US and Europe after they were first driven out?
They did.