They Release 28 Million Tiger Mosquitoes in the Valencian Community and This Is the Goal

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The Rural Agents are making a monitoring map of the species and this year they are concentrating surveillance in 42 suspicious municipalities

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The federal government will release millions of sterile flies over Texas to eliminate an insect species known for laying its carnivorous larvae in the wounds of warm-blooded animals. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced a project in which millions of flies will be bred, treated with radiation to make them sterile, and released in Texas and Mexico in hopes of reducing the population of the New World screwworm and its carnivorou…

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Freeing millions of tiger mosquitoes to end them seems a contradiction, but it is a strategy in which scientists have all their hopes to considerably reduce the threat of this species, which transmits serious diseases. In particular, it is a question of releasing sterile mosquitoes in order, in this way, to reduce the offspring of this invasive species and to reduce the overall population. It is a technique more respectful to ecosystems and even…

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Freeing millions of tiger mosquitoes to end them seems a contradiction, but it is a strategy in which scientists have all their hopes to considerably reduce the threat of this species, which transmits serious diseases. In particular, it is a question of releasing sterile mosquitoes in order, in this way, to reduce the offspring of this invasive species and to reduce the overall population. It is a technique more respectful to ecosystems and even…