Why Google wants to release 32 million weird mosquitoes in Florida

The internationally ubiquitous tech company Google wants to release 32 million bacteria infected mosquitoes in Florida, and experts say it’s not weird at all.

Google, through its decade-old, but lesser known, initiative Debug, has been working on reducing diseases spread by the buzzing bloodsuckers worldwide by combining the expertise of software engineers, biologists, specialized insect breeding robots, and artificial intelligence.

Last year, it filed an experimental use permit noted in the Federal Register to inject mosquitoes with a specific strain of the Wolbachia pipientis bacteria. When a male infected with the strain mates with a wild female, it prevents the offspring eggs from hatching, which helps reduce virus-spreading mosquito populations.

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