Google’s sister company sets out to bug mosquitoes

IT behemoth Google and its associated businesses have moved into a dizzying array of enterprises. Now Verily, the life sciences division of Google holding company Alphabet, is taking a swat at mosquitoes.In a bid to decrease the skeeter population in Fresno County, Calif., Verily this month began releasing 1 million male mosquitoes every week for 20 weeks. But don’t bug out, it’s less itchy than it sounds.Debug Fresno is a field study that aims to control the Aedes aegypti mosquito population in the central California county; that species is known to carry yellow fever, Zika, dengue fever and chikungunya, although none of these diseases is currently spreading in Fresno.Verily is working with Fresno’s Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District by releasing male mosquitos that have been