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  • iopq@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Once the population dips too low it can’t come back easily, for several reasons.

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      But there are a lot of mosquitos, and the infertile males won’t fully displace the healthy male population, so it’s unlikely the population will ever dip too low to drive them to extinction.