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The mosquito problem could be solved in the Society Islands--a part of French Polynesia that includes Tahiti, Moorea, Bora Bora, Huahine and Raiatea--within ten years, says Herve Bossin, an entomologist at the mosquito lab of the Louis Malarde Institute in Paea, Tahiti, and the project's lead scientist. He and his team plan to do this using a technique that infects mosquitoes with a specific strain of a bacterium called Wolbachia. About 65% of insects around the world carry Wolbachia, but the strains vary. If mosquitoes with different strains mate, the resulting eggs develop incorrectly and don't hatch. If there are enough of these doomed pairings, an area's mosquito population usually dies out.