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...radio, ya gotta mind your gimmick. Last month WFBM, Indianapolis' "Fun in Radio" station, got bored with giving away cows and staging scavenger hunts. So it declared a 50 bounty on every mosquito brought in to the studios by listeners. The station figured that the promotion would cost only about...
Throughout the day for several weeks running, a WFBM executive in the guise of a Spanish-accented, used-mosquito dealer drummed up entries for the competition. Last week the results, and corpses, were in-in the office, to be exact, of WFBM Promotion Man Charley Rogers. One housewife had uncovered a mosquito mating ground near her suburban home; she bug-bombed it, netted 73,225 of the critters, mounted them on toilet tissue, and got $3,661.25. Total kill for all contestants was 225,481 mosquitoes. All told, the station was stung...
shot through a mosquito...
Even if the less virile Okpo males later had a chance to mate with these females, Laven explains, the female would produce no offspring: although the female mosquito can lay three or four sets of eggs during her two-week lifetime, she draws only on the first sperm she receives to fertilize all her eggs. Thus, after only a few generations of vigorous activity by the males from Fresno, there were no female mosquitoes left in Okpo that could lay fertile eggs. By May, Okpo was mosquito free...
Cytoplasmic incompatibility can be widely used to control mosquitoes, Laven says, but he cautions that total eradication of mosquito populations might have unpredictable ecological effects. To fill the gap that his control technique may create, he is attempting to produce a mosquito strain that will not transmit filariasis-and hopes eventually to develop a breed that simply will not bite humans...