This fall, the U.S. government proposed that eight Hawaiian avian species be declared extinct. The same forces that spurred the birds’ declines still threaten Kaua'i’s eight remaining native forest birds; of those, disease-transmitting mosquitoes are the most insidious. Scientists are preparing a powerful weapon to rid the island of the introduced pests: bacterial birth control. In a lab, male mosquitoes’.
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Dec 20, 2021
2 minutes
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