Anopheles females in tropical conditions take around 12 days to go from egg to adult.
So if that's true, even if you could wave a magic wand and replace the entire mosquito population with these at one time, less than half of the population will still have the trait at the five year mark.[0]
Compounding is a bastard.
Though sure, the one-time magic wand doesn't resemble how this would be rolled out, but the general point is that the more frequently some species breeds, the harder it is to mess with.
[0] 0.995^x = 0.5 -> x = 138.2 generations. 138.2 * 12 days / 365 = ~4.5 yrs.
Anopheles females in tropical conditions take around 12 days to go from egg to adult.
So if that's true, even if you could wave a magic wand and replace the entire mosquito population with these at one time, less than half of the population will still have the trait at the five year mark.[0]
Compounding is a bastard.
Though sure, the one-time magic wand doesn't resemble how this would be rolled out, but the general point is that the more frequently some species breeds, the harder it is to mess with.
[0] 0.995^x = 0.5 -> x = 138.2 generations. 138.2 * 12 days / 365 = ~4.5 yrs.