A laboratory in Valencia is breeding and sterilising thousands of tiger mosquitoes to fight dengue fever and other diseases as global heating encourages invasive species to spread across Europe
In Valencia, the agronomist Ignacio Pla looks through a cage of male tiger mosquitoes sterilised with ionising radiation that are to be released into a park to mate with females, who will not be able to reproduce, leading to a reduction in the population of dangerous mosquitoes) photographed through a 20x optical microscope.
There is a favourable environment for its development for longer periods of time throughout the year and its populations are increasing all the time,’ said Vicente Dalmau of Valencia region’s health, agriculture and fisheries departmentA technician pours thousands of tiger mosquito pupae into a sex sorter, before using radiation to sterilise the malesA technician looks at male mosquito pupae to be sterilised.
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