What's to say something strange doesn't happen with these "modified mosquitoes" and we somehow engineer a super mosquitos or kill off 4 other species accidentally.
I really want to believe that doing this would be something that humans should explore, but I think the chance of something going wrong is fairly high. Considering our rather terrible track record with stuff like this (weapons, pesticides, etc).
It often takes decades to truly see how it works, so while we may end the mosquitos problem we may make ourselves a worse one.
The whole superhero mosquito thing is pretty solidly unlikely. For starters these things are tested in closed environments (already has been done many times). The worst you might expect is it not working at all.
Also, the mosquito lifecycle is as little as a week or two from egg to egg. The process would be rather fast.
I really want to believe that doing this would be something that humans should explore, but I think the chance of something going wrong is fairly high. Considering our rather terrible track record with stuff like this (weapons, pesticides, etc).
It often takes decades to truly see how it works, so while we may end the mosquitos problem we may make ourselves a worse one.