Recently in the news, I read that Google is planning to release millions of “sterile mosquitoes” to help combat mosquitoes, because of course, everyone hates the lowly mosquito, but is breeding “good” mosquitoes really the solution?
The article, ‘Google Wants to Release 32 Million Mosquitoes in California and Florida. Here’s Why’ [June 3, 2026
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/google-wants-to-release-32-million-mosquitoes-in-california-and-florida-heres-why-180988892/] says, “Through its parent company, Alphabet, Google wants federal approval to release up to 32 million mosquitoes in California and Florida. That might sound apocalyptic, but the request is part of the tech giant’s Debug program to eliminate disease-carrying mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes are the world’s deadliest animal. They spread malaria, dengue fever, West Nile virus and other fatal diseases to millions of people each year. The Debug project wants to tackle this issue by releasing male mosquitoes—which don’t bite or carry disease—to stop these “bad mosquitoes,” like Aedes aegypti.
The “good” bugs will be infected with a naturally occurring bacteria called Wolbachia, which will make them sterile. When one of these males tries to mate with a “bad” female, the eggs won’t hatch. “Over time, there will be fewer and fewer bad mosquitoes,” per the program’s website.”
A year or two before this, Bill Gates did something similar. He released millions of GMO mosquitoes in Florida and the east coast. He said this would help get rid of mosquitoes, and diseases like malaria.
In the GatesNotes.com essay, by Bill Gates, it states, “Inside a two-story brick building in Medellín, Colombia, scientists work long hours in muggy labs breeding millions and millions of mosquitoes. They tend to the insects’ every need as they grow from larvae to pupae to adults, keeping the temperature just right and feeding them generous helpings of fishmeal, sugar, and, of course, blood.
Then, they release them across the country to breed with wild mosquitoes that can carry dengue and other viruses threatening to sicken and kill the population of Colombia.
This might sound the beginnings of a Hollywood writer’s horror film plot.
But it’s not.
This factory is real.
And the mosquitoes being released don’t terrorize the local population. Far from it. They’re actually helping to save and improve millions of lives.
Here’s how they do it: The mosquitoes being produced in this factory carry bacteria called Wolbachia that block them from transmitting dengue and other viruses, such as Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever, to humans. By releasing them to reproduce with wild mosquitoes, they spread the bacteria, reducing virus transmission and protecting millions of people from illnesses.
I’ve written before about these amazing Wolbachia mosquitoes, including last year when a new study showed how effective they could be in preventing diseases. The randomized controlled trial conducted in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, found that Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes reduced the number of dengue cases in the city by 77 percent and dengue hospitalizations by 86 percent. In a new study in Medellín, dengue cases have declined by 89 percent since Wolbachia mosquitoes started being released in 2015.
These results are a huge breakthrough, offering proof that this new technology will protect entire cities and countries against the threat of mosquito-borne diseases. The World Mosquito Program, which is leading the Wolbachia effort, is now releasing these mosquitoes in 11 countries: Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu.”
[This factory breeds 30 million mosquitoes per week. Here’s why. By Bill Gates published on Monday, Aug 15, 2022 at https://www.gatesnotes.com/mosquito-factory]. Sure, it sounds good, no more Malaria or West Nile Virus but is breeding more mosquitoes really the solution?
Interesting that Bill Gates says his project to sounds like a” horror movie”, and Google suggests their Debug program “sounds apocalyptic”, BUT both reassure, they are doing “good work” to save millions. Those are some curious comparisons, and a whole lot of do gooodery. Not suspicious at all.
It puzzles me how corporations are allowed to do such things. Where is the government oversight? They seem to be grossly absent. I am left with many concerns that no one else seems to be bothered with, so I will address them here, perhaps you will understand my reservations, or you may call me a fool. My first concern is how is this allowed? If I were to announce I was releasing GMO mosquitoes into the world, I feel certain a SWAT team would be using a battering ram on my door in about 20 minutes. Yet the EPA just rubber stamps more and more, [EPA OKs plan to release 2.4 million more genetically modified mosquitoes, March 11, 2022:
My curiosity into the whole situation came about purely by accident. I wasn’t looking for trouble, I was fantasizing about real estate. You see about a year after the Gate’s release of those helpful mosquitoes on the East Coast of the USA, I was looking at real estate on the eastern side of America. It’s a bit of a hobby of mine. Things were feeling uncertain for me, so I was looking online at real estate that was both near nature and cheap.
I found several beautiful lakefront homes for sale for dirt cheap in Massachusetts. Some of them were obviously family homes passed down generations, worth probably close to a million dollars, selling for prices nearly as low as Detroit. This piqued my curiosity, so I put one of the town’s names into a search engine and lo and behold, there were documented cases of humans getting equine encephalitis from… mosquitoes in the area. [Fourth case of dangerous mosquito-borne virus confirmed in Massachusetts: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4872130-dangerous-mosquito-borne-virus-massachusetts/].
No wonder the homes were cheap, no self respecting family of wealth would want their children or grandchildren to suffer such a fate. Fear is a powerful motivator.
Just recently, there was a case of equine encephalitis passing to a human from mosquitoes in Michigan. According to the numerous articles I read on the subject, this is the first time this form of encephalitis was crossing the species barrier, and mosquitoes were the reported reason. It had never happened before, and the articles questioned how. I immediately had an idea! Of course, when I mentioned this to a few friends, they thought I was being absurd. These could not be ol’ Benevolent Bill Gate’s mosquitoes, certainly not. But, since neither the EPA nor the FDA were regulating or overseeing this who could know?
Then I saw this article about malaria appearing in Florida after the Bill Gates’ Foundation’s release of “safe” mosquitoes, ‘Are genetically-modified mosquitoes from a Bill Gates-backed program causing a U.S. malaria outbreak?’ [By: Karen Compton,Posted: Jul 3, 2023 / 09:24 PM EDT:
But wait, there’s more! In Kenya there is a terrible mosquito swarm attacking people, children and the elderly especially. Politicians there are blaming Bill Gate’s big Kenya Mosquito release a few years back, which the Foundation is now denying — after the article with the link above where Gates himself is bragging about just such a thing, where he speaks of how the TENS OF MILLIONS of mosquitoes they are breeding are about to make the world safer. Do I sound like a kook? It’s not me, I’m adding my very legitimate news sources, so you can’t call me a conspiracy theorist.
In this article, ‘Gates Foundation denies claims Bill Gates behind release of ‘modified mosquitoes’ on Kenyans’, [February 09, 2026: https://citizen.digital/article/gates-foundation-denies-claims-bill-gates-behind-release-of-modified-mosquitoes-on-kenyans-n377174] it says, “The Gates Foundation has firmly denied reports circulating on social media suggesting its founder, billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates, is behind the rapid increase in the number of mosquitoes in Kenya.
In a statement released to clarify its role in the country’s public health sector, the foundation categorized these claims as “false”, seeking to distance itself from rumours of unauthorized biological interventions.
The clarification came after Kenyans online, led by Senior Counsel and politician Paul Muite, took to X to accuse the foundation of nefarious mosquito-related activities, further claiming that the foundation’s practices were harming children and the elderly.
He wrote: “@gatesfoundation: Our Capital City Nairobi, is now flooded with mosquitoes released from your laboratories to eliminate the malaria-carrying ones we’re told. We believe your genetically modified mosquitoes are designed to harm us. They’re now busy biting children and the elderly.”
In a brief statement on X, the foundation emphasized that it does not engage in the physical release of the insects or the direct management of vector-control laboratories.
“The Gates Foundation is aware of social media posts claiming that we release mosquitoes in Kenya. This claim is false,” the foundation stated.” That certainly sounds like an awful lot of backpedaling from Gates’ own claims.
Another seemingly obvious problem with these mosquitoes is the food chain. There are many insects and animals that live off of mosquitoes, what happens when they are ingesting GMO or “sterile” lab grown mosquitoes? Anything? Do we know? Has anyone checked or studied these outcomes? I doubt it. In today’s world, a billionaire has a brain fart (pardon me, starts a “biotech company” were are just supposed to stand back and watch the magic unfold, I mean look at the iphone, look at AI, look at Space X! How could we ever question these “Stable geniuses”, we dreadful peasants, we “campesinoes” of the world?
What happens to the birds, fish and other creatures that eat mosquitoes? Is there nutritional value in these manufactured mosquitoes for them, or will they whither away and die of malnutrition? What does the Environmental Protection Agency say about this? We are already experiencing a 75% drop in insects over the last 25 years. From Wikipedia: Decline in insect populations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations
“Most commonly, the declines involve reductions in abundance, though in some cases entire species are going extinct. The declines are far from uniform. In some localities, there have been reports of increases in overall insect population, and some types of insects appear to be increasing in abundance across the world.
Not all insect orders are affected in the same way; most affected are bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, dragonflies and damselflies. Many of the remaining insect groups have received less research to date. Also, comparative
figures from earlier decades are often not available. In the few major global studies, estimates of the total number of insect species at risk of extinction range between 10% and 40%, though all of these estimates have been fraught with controversy.
Studies concur that in areas where insects are declining, their abundance has been diminishing for decades. Yet, those trends had not been spotted earlier, as there has historically been much less interest in studying insects in comparison to mammals, birds and other vertebrates. One reason is the comparative lack of charismatic species of insects. In 2016, it was observed that while 30,000 insect species are known to inhabit Central Europe, there are practically no specialists in the region devoted to full-time monitoring.
This issue of insufficient research is even more acute in the developing countries. As of 2021, nearly all of the studies on regional insect population trends come from Europe and the United States, even though they account for less than 20% of insect species worldwide. In Africa, Asia and South America there are hardly any observations of insects that span several decades. Such studies would be required to draw conclusions about population trends on a large scale.”
[More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5646769/]
Why wouldn’t we breed more dragonflies, and other insects too?
I must say here, I am shocked that in one of the reports it was written that basically no one studies insects, we know very little about them. We have a thousand brilliant minds creating the most inane of apps, studying how get us to shop more psychology, and all manner of uselessness, and no one the planet it studying insects – Just that 10-year-old boy in Japan studying Swallowtail Butterflies? [10-Year-Old Discovers That Butterfly Memories Survive Metamorphosis and Can Be Inherited https://mymodernmet.com/jo-nagai-butterfly-study/] Is he the only one?
The rapid decline of insects is eliminating the song bird from our lives. There is so much pesticide floating around, we have lost so much — 75% of insects, more of certain others. While masses of insects can be a hand waving burden, not having them is also eliminating lizards, birds, fish, and many other animals and insects that need them to survive. Where do these hundreds of millions of extra mosquitoes fit in? Can they take up the slack of missing food, or are they indigestible for the creatures?
The question remains if these “helpful” mosquitoes are made up of the same things real mosquitoes are and may offer some nutritional value, or if they are made from something else that is inedible? This begs the question. If these are machine built insects, why? A mosquito is not likely to mate with a fake, and if she does are we certain they will never create offspring? And, what will eating GMO mosquitoes do to wildlife? We are starting to see the effect GMO food is having on humans here in America, the least healthy nation on earth.
Then there is the concept of what mosquitoes do, they draw our blood. Could they be drawing our blood for something? Maybe data collection? Would a data collection company want to collect blood data on us in this manner?
If they can remove data samples from our bodies, they can also put something into our bodies. Lest we not forget, just last year the talk of medicines and vaccines being introduced into lettuce… Oh dear, you don’t think the recent lettuce problem with “explosive diarrhea” could be linked? No, that couldn’t be. Could it?
Regarding things being administered to into our bodies by mosquito. This perhaps seems sci-fi, but that is exactly how the diseases these biotech companies claim to want to stop spread. Could that be used against us by infecting us with illness, cancer, or just plain death? Am I going to far? Honestly, I do not think I am. I’m no reporter, but it would seem this is highly possible based on the questionable bacteria they claim to be spreading to other mosquitoes as the goal of the project – infect mosquitoes with a sterility bacteria. Has the Food and Drug Administration determined this mosquito bacteria is safe for humans? FDA, where are you?
The Gates’ Foundation contends their mosquitoes are carrying Wolbachia bacteria that will make male mosquitoes sterile. Dare I ask, what could go wrong there? Is it possible for that bacteria to render humans and other mammals sterile also? Has it been studied, or even pondered? Or, could that be the goal?
Additionally, the articles between Google’s and the Gates Foundation’s bio tech plan are nearly identical in the wording, and the very same Wolbachia bacteria of mosquito sterility is being used. It’s like they are the same company, are they? Is this just one big company wearing different faces?
It’s funny the wormhole a little real estate fantasizing can lead to. In seeking out an affordable but pretty place to live, I stumbled upon a mosquito deep dive that I think we might want to pay more attention to.
Why would a tech company, two in fact, both heavily invested in data collection and management, suddenly get interested in mosquitoes? Why would men steeped in computers want to jump into bio hacking mosquitoes? Even philanthropically, it is a weird choice. Malaria is a rare disease. We also have effective immunizations against it. The entire thing is strange. One would think a philanthropic organization devoted to helping with insects would focus on protecting forests or building back butterfly and dragonfly populations and pollinator habitat. Dragonflies especially as they eat mosquitoes. Or perhaps making sure there is suitable habitat along the way for migrating birds like the barn swallow, who also eat tons of insects, especially mosquitoes to successfully make the trip and eat lots of bugs along the way. Odd indeed, breeding millions of mosquitoes to help stop mosquitoes.
Perhaps we need to say no to tech companies releasing GMO mosquitoes for the benefit of humanity, we being humanity and all, or at least ask a lot more questions. Where did they get the right to alter the natural world in this way? How could this possibly be an act of benevolence? Where are any studies, especially long term studies on the effects of this concept of GMO mosquitoes sterilizing future mosquitoes with bacteria, and how that could possibly affect the human, mammal and reptile populations? So many questions. May we please have some answers?