Billions of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Are Set to Descend on California and Florida This Summer
Californians may not know it on mass , but there ’s die to be something dissimilar about theirmosquitoesthis summer . An encroaching species of the bite - prone insects has been genetically modify in an attempt at controlling disease banquet . According toSmithsonian , the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has approved plans by biotech business firm Oxitec to release 2.4 billion maleAedes aegyptimosquitos in both California and Florida that have been altered so their gene can only participate in producing last male offspring ....