Targeted biological solutions for sustainable management of pests and the diseases they spread.

Overview

We build next-generation biological solutions to combat the world’s most important pests across human health, crop production and livestock.

We’re scaling pest management and disease blocking technologies in human health, piloting new solutions worldwide, and growing our pipeline to manage
pest resistance in food crops, address Africa’s growing malaria threat and protect cattle from disease-spreading pests.
Dengue Malaria Crops Livestock

Dengue

The world is suffering a growing dengue emergency – more than 300 million people are infected every year, and the disease is surging year on year.

Flyttr is now scaling two of the world’s most effective dengue solutions: one designed to reduce the dengue-spreading mosquito, Aedes aegypti; the other designed to block dengue transmission in resident Aedes aegypti populations.

Friendly™ Aedes

Male-only, self-limiting mosquitoes for population suppression. Proven success in Brazil, where our just-add-water devices make deployment simple for cities, businesses, and communities nationwide.

Delivered through global and national pest control distributors, ensuring reach from urban centres to rural communities.

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In Brazil, scale-up of both solutions is powered by Chrysalis, the world’s largest mosquito factory, guaranteeing consistent quality and volume for large-scale programmes.

Malaria

Malaria kills more than
600,000 people – mainly
children – every year.

After years of progress, it is resurging due to growing drug resistance, failing mosquito control tools and the spread of invasive vectors.

Flyttr is building Friendly™ solutions to address two mosquitoes that play an important and growing malaria transmission role in Africa and Latin America.

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Djibouti

One invasive malaria-transmitting mosquito, Anopheles Stephensi, is emerging as a major urban vector in Africa. As it spreads, it is predicted to threaten more than 100 million people across the continent.

In partnership with the Djiboutian Government, not-for-profits and local communities, Oxitec is piloting a Friendly™ Stephensi solution as a first step to addressing this urban malaria threat.

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Crops

Pests cause 20-40% of losses to farmers worldwide

Fall Armyworm is one of the most destructive pests for maize growers worldwide, eroding crop yields and threatening food security.

Friendly™ Fall Armyworm has been developed to counteract pest resistance to biotech crops, extending the durability of these critical technologies.

  • Commercially approved in Brazil
  • Piloted in all key corn-growing regions
  • Dilutes pest resistance for protection of biotech crop performance

Livestock

1 million head of cattle die of tick-borne disease annually in Africa alone.

Ticks are widely resistant to current chemical tools

We are building a Friendly™ cattle tick to combat the invasive tick, Rhipicephalus Microplus, notorious for transmitting tick-borne diseases such as babesiosis and anaplasmosis, which result in substantial economic losses for farmers in South America, Africa, and parts of Asia.

Working in partnership with the Roslin Institute,
we are applying genetic and biological
innovations to develop a new, targeted way of
managing this deadly invasive tick.

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