US EditionDrones drop mosquitoes over Maui to save honeycreepers
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Drones drop mosquitoes over Maui to save honeycreepers
Conservationists working to save Hawaii’s endangered, native birds are now using drones to deliver lab-reared, male mosquitoes over Maui. The male mosquitoes have a special purpose — to mate with wild females in the forests while carrying a naturally occurring bacteria that results in sterile eggs, thereby breaking the breeding cycle and reducing the population. Scientists hope this “incompatible insect technique” will reduce the overall mosquit…
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