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Graz Suspends 600,000 Barren Tiger Mosquito Males
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der Standard DEThe aim is to reduce the population by the infertile mosquitoes. The insects were first detected in 2021, are more and more common and can transmit diseases.
The Styrian capital wants to reduce the population of the introduced Asian tiger mosquitoes. Because the insects can transmit tropical diseases.
This morning, 125,000 sterile tiger mosquitoes were released in the Schönau home garden in Graz – an Austria-wide unique step to contain the tiger mosquito, which can not only be annoying, but also harmful to health.
Tiger mosquito With sterilized males the population of insects, which can transmit several diseases, is to be slowed down.
Hanano Yamada, one of the scientists involved in the project, described the process on Tuesday in the home garden of Schönau in the district of Jakomini shortly before the release of the first 126,000 mosquitoes: "We breed laboratory colonies in large shells. In the doll stage we then manually separate the females from the males. The females come back to the colony. The males come first into a cold room and then into an X-ray machine. "The mosqu…
The tiger mosquito has come to Styria to stay. In Graz one now relies on a new project: Sterile tiger mosquito males should help to contain the population. On Tuesday the project was actively presented: the males were exposed.
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