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Female Mosquitoes Tricked by Spermless Males

By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine Tinkering with male mosquitoes so that they cannot produce sperm is a promising way to control the spread of the malaria-carrying insects in the wild. Researchers had been concerned that female Anopheles gambiaemosquitoes might not be fooled into mating with the spermless males, but lab tests show that they are just as attracted to sterile males as to normal ones1

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