How to fight onslaught of invasive, disease-carrying mosquitos? More mosquitos

With an exotic mosquito invading backyard nooks and crannies, Los Angeles County can no longer keep pace by only using pesticides or releasing mosquito-eating fish in ponds and old pools.

So the county’s pest-control district is trying squadrons of sterilized male mosquitos who will mate with females in the wild, rendering their eggs dead and hopefully lowering the female population. The females are the targets because they bite humans for the protein that is needed for egg-laying, while males do not bite.