Looked into oxitec a while back.
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“This mosquito is Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, plain and simple,’’ Helen Wallace, a British environmentalist with the organization GeneWatch, told The New Yorker in 2012. “To open a box and let these man-made creatures fly free is a risk with dangers we haven’t even begun to contemplate.” But since 2012, Oxitec has used its mutants in several residential neighborhoods, and after releasing 3.3 million of them in the Cayman Islands, more than 96 percent of the native mosquitos were suppressed, the company said. The plan achieved similar success in a town in Brazil as well.
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Here, on an industrial estate in Campinas, on the outskirts of São Paulo, Oxitec is rearing millions of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, from egg to adult, on a diet of sugared paper and sheep's blood.
Once released, the males will try to find a mate in the few days before the antidote wears off and they die. All the eggs they fertilize will inherit the disruptive gene and fail to develop into adults. According to Oxitec, in the field trials carried out by its local partner, Moscamed, in the northeast of Brazil, the population of the Aedes Aegypti was reduced by 96 percent after six months of continuous release of swarms of OX513A.
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leader in the engineering and industrialization of biology to improve the quality of life and health of the planet, today announced the appointment of Mark Carnegie-Brown, Ph.D. as Chief Executive Officer of its wholly owned subsidiary Oxitec Ltd
-Intrexon Corporation (NYSE: XON) is Powering the Bioindustrial Revolution with Better DNA™ to create biologically-based products that improve the quality of life and the health of the planet. Intrexon’s integrated technology suite provides its partners across diverse markets with industrial-scale design and development of complex biological systems delivering unprecedented control, quality, function, and performance of living cells. We call our synthetic biology approach Better DNA
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/Genetically-Modified-Mosquitoes-May-Be-Released-in-Florida-Keys/384859/
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/4x3ngn/inside-the-lab-thats-modifying-mosquitoes-to-end-disease
https://synbiobeta.com/intrexon-appoints-dr-mark-carnegie-brown-ceo-oxitec/
So it's a "benign" plan to control female mosquitoes right?