Google is seeking EPA approval to release up to 64 million sterilized male mosquitoes in California and Florida over two years to drive down the population of disease-carrying insects.

Google wants to release more than 30 million mosquitoes in the United States.

According to University of Florida Assistant Professor Eric Caragata, who specializes in mosquito-microbe interactions, the new Debug request targets the Culex quinquefasciatus variety of mosquito, wh...