# GMO Mosquitos - what say you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 30, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmo-mosquitos-what-say-you/711361 "2015-01-30T18:47:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmo-mosquitos-what-say-you/711361/6 "2015-01-30T20:02:04Z")
Mentioned also in the recent thread about introduced organisms and particularly in [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18081756#post18081756) by me. Relevant detail for this thread: It’s only the males that are being mutated and released. And males don’t bite people. > [@How often do Introduced Species work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-introduced-species-work/710902/10): > > I don’t quite see what the objections is. They are only going to release males, which don’t bite people. The males then compete with normal males for females, who will then lay eggs and the larva will die before they get around to biting anyone. There aren’t going to be any Peter Parker style mosquito-man people coming out of this. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmo-mosquitos-what-say-you/711361)._