Re:Good News Against Dengue
by objektif on Monday April 15, 2024 @02:02PM
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That’s great. If we can drive disease carrying ones to extinction why do we need to keep buying this?
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Re:Good News Against Dengue
by mattmaroon on Monday April 15, 2024 @06:39PM
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You probably can't drive them to extinction this way. The introduced mosquitoes only help within a small range (~400m I think) of where they put the little devices they come from, because that particular mosquito doesn't travel far from where it's born. And even within that range, a 95% reduction is great, but the year you stop, that 5% will just start doing whatever they did before and a couple years later you'll be back to where you were beforehand.Insect populations grow exponentially.