Mosquito control often focuses on killing the insects themselves. University of Florida scientist Dov Borovsky spent about a decade developing a different approach: disrupting mosquitoes’ ability to digest food.
The result is what Borovsky described as a mosquito “diet pill.” The treatment uses a hormone involved in mosquito digestion and delivers it through algae. When mosquito larvae eat the treated algae, the hormone interferes with digestion, leaving them unable to properly process their food.
