In a series of experiments, the team collected A. aegypti from the wild, infected half of them with popcorn Wolbachia and released 4000 at a time into the mesh cage.

• 在一系列的实验中，小组从野外收集埃及伊蚊，让其中一半的蚊子感染“爆米花”菌，然后一次释放4000只蚊子到网笼中。