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Yeah it sounds like it would be better if the eggs still hatched but they should only produce good male mosquitos again.

• bagels 10y ago
  They're only 'good' because they're sterile, and capable of sabotaging mosquito reproduction. If they weren't sterile and "only produce good male mosquitos again", the population would not decrease, they would just be releasing regular male mosquitos.
  • hubert123 10y ago
    right, which means that eventually the entire population would be male and then die off
    • sp332 10y ago
      I was about to say that's impossible because meiosis produces equal number of "male" and "female" cells but... someone actually did it. https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2014/06/eradicating-female-malaria-bearing-mosquitos.html https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2014/06/eradic...