»What makes Asian tiger mosquitoes dangerous« | ZDF
The tiger mosquito is one of the deadliest animals in the world. At the Fraunhofer Institute in Giessen, we are trying to genetically control this dangerous disease vector. With the help of so-called RNA interference, the reproduction of a virus in the tiger mosquito is to be stopped.
“With our method, we really only attack the pathogen and not the mosquito, so that the mosquito is still available in the ecosystem as food, for example for birds, but also in the larval stage, for example for fish,” explains Dr. Kornelia Hardes, Deputy Head of the Pest and Vector Insect Control Department at the Fraunhofer IME, Bioresources.