True, but in the context of a pilot program to target native species elsewhere. In short it wouldn’t meet that criteria, because the Asian Tiger mosquito is a recent invader. In the narrow case of targeting recent (decades rather than centuries, and then ATM qualifies as the former) invaders alone, I agree that few rational people would object.

> in the context of a pilot program to target native species elsewhere

Isn't this just defining the scope artificially narrowly to deny that it would be a useful experiment?

Is there an ecologically significant difference in targeting an invasive species?