The researchers conclude that this approach could help solve the long-standing challenge of mass-producing sterile mosquitoes.
A recent study has unveiled an automated pupae sorter capable of distinguishing and sorting millions of male and female mosquitoes daily. This innovation could boost current pupae separation rates by approximately 17 times and produce up to 16 million male mosquitoes a week.
“The upscale of the use of these techniques is going to have very positive environmental impacts, since mosquito control is currently mainly based on the use of pesticides. Moreover, the targeted mosquito species are invasive species, and their control will reestablish ecosystem integrity,” Jérémy Bouyer, one of the study authors, toldMosquito pupae are the stage in a mosquito’s life cycle just before they become adults. After hatching from eggs, mosquitoes first become larvae.
Given the potential variation in mosquito immature development across different batches, the sorter was calibrated for each batch of pupae at the beginning of sex separation to optimize the accuracy by adjusting the technical parameters, including the slope of the outer sorting glass, through the touch screen on the control panel. Once calibrated, sex separation operated automatically until all pupae were sorted.
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