How sterile male mosquitoes work
We raise mosquitoes, remove the females, sterilize the males and release them. The population collapses generation by generation, each one just a few weeks, and stays down while releases continue.
Four steps, start to finish
The sterile insect technique is simple to say and hard to do well. Here is what happens before a single male reaches your property.
Why the eggs don't hatch
A female mosquito mates once and stores that sperm for life. If her partner is sterile, her eggs won't develop. When sterile males outnumber wild males, most wild females end up mating with one of ours.
Outdoors, most adult mosquitoes live only a week or two. When their eggs don't hatch, nothing replaces them, which is why numbers drop fast.
Our males also go where sprays and traps can't reach: gutters, drains, dense plants and the yard next door.
What you'll see, week by week
Timing varies with weather, property size and what's next door.
For homes, from your address and answers; for commercial properties and farms, a free assessment. You get a year-round release plan, and can start anytime.
You may notice small mosquitoes near the release points. Those are our males, and they don't bite. You start to feel the difference.
The first generation that should have hatched doesn't, and each one after it is smaller again.
Releases continue on your schedule, and we check in on hotspots.
One plate a month in winter, so the population never rebuilds. Spring starts quiet instead of from scratch.