https://english.news.cn/20240802/4fbbad5fd112495fbd4fc3c3e30993a2/c.html

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adj6261

An international research team, consisting of researchers from institutions such as Michigan State University, Jinan University and Guangzhou Wolbaki Biotech Co., has developed an automated device that can efficiently separate male and female mosquitoes

Studies have shown that releasing male mosquitoes that do not bite or transmit diseases to mate with wild female mosquitoes can effectively control the wild mosquito population. The large-scale regional application of this technique has been limited by the bottleneck issue of how to separate male and female mosquitoes.

According to Guangzhou Wolbaki Biotech Co., the automated device can stir, separate and collect mosquito pupae efficiently. The automated separator enables its operator to separate over 16 million male mosquitoes by working eight hours a day and five days a week, a 17-fold increase when compared to manual sex separation.