I know it's winter, but it's never to early to think about the mass murder of mosquitoes. One of my dirty secrets is that despite knowing that at best the idea is environmentally hubristic and at worst environmentally catastrophic, I want science to eradicate the mosquito.
Therefore I was delighted to see that science is indeed working on just that...and making progress! According to Wired, a biotech company in Britain has genetically engineered a male mosquito whose offspring will die before reproducing. The idea is to reduce populations of disease carrying mosquitoes so we won't be seeing franken-mosquitoes in Alaska any time soon...but one can always hope.
deirdre Helfferich said,
January 31st, 2008 at 01:03 AM
Eradicate the mosquito, eradicate the swallow. Seems to me we should be working not on mosquitoes, but the diseases they carry.