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MosquitoMate
Our focus is developing new tools for mosquito control. MosquitoMate technology is based on new biopesticide technology, which can be integrated with existing methods or used alone. Where other methods fail, our technology can reduce and eliminate important mosquitoes. One approach is based on a bacterium that occurs naturally in a majority of insects. Non-biting male mosquitoes can effectively …
Profile
- Industry
- Crop protection, Ecology & monitoring, Feed
- Topics
- Crop protection chemicals & fertilizers, Biopesticides & biocontrol, Insect protein (BSF, crickets, silkworm)
- Role
- Research / RTO — “…( ) - Glenn B. ( ) - Duke University Global Health Institute ( ) - Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC)…”
Bio-solutions it supplies 1
What they offer
Products: ZAP; WB1; MosquitoMate; ZAP Males; WB1 Males
Certifications: EPA registered; Organically Listed
- Applications
- Mosquito control · Situations requiring mosquito control in outdoor living spaces · Municipality and Abatement District Services
- Certifications (website)
- EPA registered · EPA Registered · Organically Listed
- Customers & partners
- mosquito abatement districts · municipalities · individual businesses · homeowners · Leah R. · Patsy A. · Terry G. · Peter P. · Glenn B. · Duke University Global Health Institute · Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) · government
- Production sites
- Male mosquitoes (ZAP and WB1)
- Products (website)
- ZAP — Male mosquitoes that carry a naturally-occurring bacterium called ‘Wolbachia’. · WB1 — Male mosquitoes that carry a naturally-occurring bacterium called ‘Wolbachia’. · MosquitoMate — Uses Wolbachia bacteria to control mosquito populations without chemicals. · ZAP Males — Sterilizes female mosquitoes, helping to reduce mosquito populations naturally. · WB1 Males — Specific product for Yellow Fever Mosquitoes.
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News & status 6
- 2024-12 Latest status: In December 2024, the company received its first Vector Expedited Review Voucher (VERV) from the EPA. ↗ ↗ ↗
- Status review: active — Wolbachia male-mosquito releases covered in Sep 2026. Evidence: 2026-09-17 — Scientists are fighting a longer mosquito season with... more mosquit (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/17/longer-mosquito-season-california)
- 2026-08-18 Scientists explore new ways to target mosquitoes as warming climate expands threat | PBS NewsMosquitoMate, led by Stephen Dobson, uses Wolbachia-infected male mosquitoes to mate with wild females, rendering them sterile and reducing populations by up to 70–95% without genetic modification. The approach is EPA-approved and parallels programs like the …
- 2026-09-17 Scientists are fighting a longer mosquito season with... more mosquitoes | Climate crisis | The GuardianMosquitoMate is a Kentucky company that breeds male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the natural bacterium Wolbachia and ships them to control agencies to reduce disease-carrying mosquito populations; the approach is not genetic modification and aims to …
- 2026-09-16 Cities and homeowners try a new weapon against mosquitoes: more mosquitoesMosquitoMate (via its ZAP program) produces non-biting male mosquitoes carrying a gut bacterium that prevents eggs from hatching when they mate with wild females, reducing the mosquito population. The method is EPA-approved, touted as environmentally friendly …
- 2026-07-28 These 600,000 Mosquitoes Won't Bite You, Here's Why They're Being Released In WashingtonMosquitoMate, a Kentucky-based company, supplies the Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes used in the release program. Their method relies on breeding mosquitoes carrying the Wolbachia bacterium, a technology developed at the University of Kentucky.
- 2026-08-25 Scientists fight extended mosquito season with more mosquitoes | PreventionWebMosquitoMate is a Kentucky-based company that breeds male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carrying a Wolbachia bacterium and ships them to control agencies to reduce disease-carrying mosquito populations; the method does not involve genetic modification.
- 2026-08-01 Entomologist Stephen Dobson on releasing modified mosquitoes to fight diseaseMosquitoMate is a company, led by entomologist Stephen Dobson, that releases male Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes to suppress local populations of disease-carrying mosquitoes, offering a species-specific, resistance-free approach that targets only the same …
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