I'm not strongly opposed, but I was pretty nervous about the mosquito trials, and I thought (perhaps wrongly) that mosquitoes were a really special case and we

I'm not strongly opposed, but I was pretty nervous about the mosquito trials, and I thought (perhaps wrongly) that mosquitoes were a really special case and we weren't going to start doing this all the time for every single insect pest. The argument for doing heavy population control on mosquitoes is at least backed up by a number of scientists who doubt mosquitoes play any substantial roles in their ecosystems. Have we drawn the same conclusions about diamondback moths? Are they at least an invasive species or something? I remain conscious of the fact that I am not an expert in these areas, but I also remain very nervous about genetic engineering trials in the wild. The fact that we're now doing this for agricultural purposes and not just to stop malaria rings a lot of alarm bells for me, but I don't know enough about this subject to clearly articulate why it makes me so nervous. I can't credibly claim that my aversion to actively editing genes in wild animals isn't just an internalization of cultural norms from movies like Frankenstein. But the alarm bells are still there for me. Is there a timeline of other insects this company is looking at? Is it just mosquitoes and moths, or is there a X year plan to start targeting other pests?