Mosquitoes are vectors for diseases that affect approximately 0.7 billion people globally. Most of these diseases have a high incidence in tropical often developing countries, where they prove either fatal or severely debilitating. Despite huge investments of time and money to find solutions, we have been unable to control this disease vector. Additionally, some of the techniques previously and currently in use to prevent these diseases, have serious drawbacks such as detrimental effects on non-target species, humans and the environment. We need eco-friendly alternatives to these harmful chemicals, that are just as efficient while also being species-specific to avoid harmful effects on other beneficial insect species. Sterile insect technique (SIT) is a creative technology that does just that. It involves the mass release of sterile males of a species to outcompete wild males and mate with wild females, eventually resulting in the decline of a targeted insect population. However, before these sterile males are released, they must be separated from females. An efficient way to sex-sort males from females can use RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi is a natural defence mechanism that exists in eukaryotic cells, that can be used to knock down female-biased or female-specific genes. Targeted females will develop slower than their male counterparts due to this knockdown and this will enable their separation from a pool of male individuals. For my honours thesis, I targeted four such female-biased genes - AAEL014604, AAEL014797, AAEL009313 and AAEL005884 and measured development (in days), survival and pupal size for each of these treatments for both male and female mosquitoes. None of my treatments resulted in significant results but one of these (AAEL014797) showed great promise for an improved SIT.