EPA approves ‘good guy’ mosquitoes to battle Zika

The company will raise their bugs in the lab, separate males and females and then release the males, which don’t bite, into treatment areas. When the bacteria-carrying males mate with wild females, their eggs don’t hatch, because Wolbachia prevents the paternal chromosome from forming properly. Since the species only lives 30 to 40 days in …

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