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In Florida, they’re fighting mosquitoes by meddling with their sex lives

Florida Keys skeeter police testing one of two opposing strategies for using bacteria to squelch Zika-spreading mosquitoes

Catherine Pruszynski 

AND THEY’RE OFF  Entomologist Catherine Pruszynski frees male mosquitoes from their shipping tube at the start of a 12-week test of insect saboteurs for the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District.

Beth Ranson/Florida Keys Mosquito Control District

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

Near Key West, Fla.,