Altered Mosquitoes
Genetically modified mosquitoes were released in Africa for the first time on July 1st 2019 by Target Malaria in Burkina Faso. On April 29th, this year, the United States followed suit, as Oxitec released 72,000 mosquitoes into the Florida Keys. With the intention of controlling the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, these mosquitoes have been genetically modified in such a way that their offspring will die before reaching adulthood.
(https://bit.ly/3eyZdUo, https://bit.ly/3uFHlwM, https://go.nature.com/33w7i5W, https://bit.ly/3o0vNl8)