Nuclear technology to kill mosquitoes is not a trivial matter

　　There was a lot of rain throughout the country this summer, and mosquitoes were particularly rampant. In order to kill mosquitoes, we have adopted various methods, but the effect is always not ideal. Now, there is a new idea for mosquito control: the China National Atomic Energy Agency’s Nuclear Technology (Sterile Insects) Research and Development Center established by Sun Yat-sen University has applied nuclear technology to mosquito control, creating a new “killer.”
　　Sounds like a fuss? It really isn’t. According to experts, mosquitoes are an important vector for spreading diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and Zika fever. According to statistics from the World Health Organization, more than 700,000 deaths caused by mosquito-borne infectious diseases each year.
　　So, how does nuclear technology kill mosquitoes? One of the most troublesome characteristics of mosquitoes is their strong reproductive ability. Nuclear technology to kill mosquitoes aims at this point and performs “sterilization operations” on it: radiation is used in the laboratory to destroy the fertility of male mosquitoes. After these sterile male mosquitoes are released into the wild, they have no offspring, thus achieving reduction. The effect of mosquito-borne disease incidence.
　　”Compared with traditional insect vector control methods, this approach does not produce chemical pollution, has strong mosquito killing selectivity, does not harm other beneficial organisms or natural enemies of pests, and does not induce mosquitoes to develop resistance to insecticides, and the control effect is long-lasting.” Wu Zhongdao, director of the IAEA’s Nuclear Technology (Sterile Insects) Research and Development Center, introduced that this is currently the only modern biological control technology that has the potential to eradicate specific mosquitoes in an area and achieve the goal of controlling the spread of diseases.