{"id":863851,"date":"2026-09-28T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863851\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:16:08","slug":"a-novel-form-of-mosquito-birth-control-comes-to-the-d-c-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863851\/","title":{"rendered":"A novel form of mosquito birth control comes to the D.C. area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DZ4V7LRTCRB5XID2T2MO3BFZZA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Every week this summer, a small army of 1,500 mosquitoes were let loose in Vinaya Frank\u2019s backyard. Their mission: Find a female mate in Frank\u2019s garden.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"VYOIUA27TVFMVBQOXUIGK427QQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The male mosquitoes, which don\u2019t bite humans, were carrying a naturally occurring bacterium called Wolbachia that can prevent mosquito eggs from hatching. Frank bought the treatment from a small pest control company that, for the first time this summer, released 600,000 Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes across 25 Maryland and D.C. properties. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every week this summer, a small army of 1,500 mosquitoes were let loose in Vinaya Frank\u2019s backyard. Their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-863851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}