The content of the reading and the listening is totally different to each other in whether the new methods can reduce the population of mosquitoes. To begin with, the author indicates the method significantly diminishes the number of mosquitoes on the targeted species. Yet the speaker says that with the reduction of the targeted mosquito number, other species of mosquito can increase greatly. Those mosquitoes in the increasing can even be more fatal to humans.
In the second place, in the passage, the engineered mosquito will carry the gene to affect their next generation in the expected outcomes. However, from the lecturer, this might not be a good idea since we do not know if the genes will go wrong and creates new disease. Besides, what if humans are bitten by those mosquitoes, the consequences might be deadly, yet the reading further points out that the mosquito bites are all the same.
Thirdly, the method is really environmental friendly because it uses no toxic chemicals. Yet the speaker does not think so, indicating that DNA altered mosquitoes pose potential threats to hurt other species. Recently news revealed the butterfly population was diminished greatly in fifty percent because of the nearby herbicide usage.