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[quote=Anonymous]To wipe out their insane number of mosquitoes in this area. It's absolutely nuts. You can't even go outside for months at a time without getting torn up from mosquitoes in the DMV.  It is getting worse and it is intolerable.  Worse yet, the DMV infested with Asian Tiger mosquitoes, which are 1000x worse.  How can we lobby for local governments to work together to release genetically modified mosquitoes that will inbreed with the mosquito populations and render them sterile?

What's the other alternative?  Spray tons of chemicals kill pollinators?  Or continue to do nothing and allow highly invasive non native species of mosquitoes in this area to keep thriving and ruin all of our quality of life? On top of that, Asian tiger mosquitoes are a significant risk for many types of vector borne illnesses. That are a grave threat to public health.  Why aren't governments doing anything about it?

It is so bad now we are contemplating on leaving because the mosquitoes make it not possible to live for almost 5-6 months out of the year.[/quote]

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