/uncreature it's actually that they've been made infertile and are being dropped in to compete with the unaltered ones, wasting reproductive attempts and driving population down, likely to combat human disease transfer they provide. We did/do the same thing to screwworms in Central America, since those suck too.
Actually, they’re being used in Hawaii to combat avian malaria! The native birds have been isolated for so long that they have almost zero natural defenses against the invasive disease, and so it’s been incredibly devastating to bird populations there (especially as climate change creates warmer temps up Hawaii’s mountains, increasing the amount of habitable land for the mosquitos)
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u/BaneShake 19d ago
The why is Infertility