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by mdturnerphys 2056 days ago
It's an extra-lame counterpoint because male mosquitos don't bite, and they're only releasing males.
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It's lame but it's true that during the Verily release of mosquitoes from their carts [1] in HDB estates, they had a lot of people complain how since releasing they saw more mosquitoes and were bitten more often, while the mosquito traps showed a clear decline in population.

[1] https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/nea-alphabet-...

Fwiw, I have had seen more mosquitoes in my room but not really gotten bitten. But they are definitely buzzing around my head at times
How do they separate the genders?
For small scale production it's a manual process (size differences), for industrial scale it's using ML and blowing air in a certain direction. Basically the mosquitoes are brought under a camera in some form of tube, and depending on the gender they are blown into a certain direction separating male and female.

I don't think this is part of Verily, and afaik Verily was one of the first that starting doing this.

Amazing. Thank you!