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> Suppressing the mosquito population of an entire city is likely to require the weekly production of millions of these mosquitoes. To reach that level, Dobson’
by mabbo 9y ago
> Suppressing the mosquito population of an entire city is likely to require the weekly production of millions of these mosquitoes. To reach that level, Dobson’s company must find a way to efficiently separate male mosquitoes from females. The company’s technicians now separate them both by hand and mechanically,
Sounds like a potential use-case for that mosquito zapping laser[0], which I've heard can target by gender.
[0]https://www.fastcompany.com/3059127/what-happened-to-the-mosquito-zapping-laser-that-was-going-to-stop-malaria https://www.fastcompany.com/3059127/what-happened-to-the-mos...
- katastic 9y agoInteresting. You could probably simply "kill" the ones you don't need in a particular batch. I don't think I've ever considered "killing" the optimum strategy for sorting before.
- sschueller 9y agoSamething is done with chickens for egg production. It's barberic, the males are ground up.
- katastic 9y agoFair enough, but in that case at least the males are used for food right? Whereas the male mosquitos are literally just turned into trash.