Company asks US government to release army of sterile male mosquitoes to lower number of illness-spreading bugs Company asks US government to release army of sterile male mosquitoes to lower number of illness-spreading bugs Google wants to “stop bad bugs with good bugs”, and it’s not talking about coding. The tech company has asked the US government for permission to release up to 32 million sterilized mosquitoes in California and Florida. As part of its successful “Debug” program , Google is