China Drone Attack on Crop-Eating ‘Monster’ Shows 98% Kill Rate
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Re: China Drone Attack on Crop-Eating ‘Monster’ Shows 98% Kill Rate
#2Drones have very short flight times and can't carry that much weight. Can this really be cheaper than driving a tractor around?
Re: China Drone Attack on Crop-Eating ‘Monster’ Shows 98% Kill Rate
#3This is pretty interesting to read... I think our media normally ignores North American pests travelling to other parts of the world.
Around here we have a lot of talk about pests that have arrived from China that affect our local plants but not many that talk about our pests that have invaded China.
Locally I've had to deal with the Asian Winter Moth decimating trees in my yard and throughout the area I live in. That seems to have gotten under control the last few years though interestingly.
And of course everyone knows about the American Chestnut tree and the blight from China that wiped it out.
Re: China Drone Attack on Crop-Eating ‘Monster’ Shows 98% Kill Rate
#4Drones have very short flight times and can't carry that much weight. Can this really be cheaper than driving a tractor around?
Perhaps most of the product is a refueling station.
Re: China Drone Attack on Crop-Eating ‘Monster’ Shows 98% Kill Rate
#5Targeted use of low toxicity pesticide with a 98% effective rate? More of this.
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#6This seems dangerous in the hands of a nationalistic government.
Re: China Drone Attack on Crop-Eating ‘Monster’ Shows 98% Kill Rate
#7This is pretty interesting to read... I think our media normally ignores North American pests travelling to other parts of the world. Around here we have a lot of talk about pests that have arrived from China that affect our local plants but not many that talk about our pests that have invaded China. Locally I've had to deal with the Asian Winter Moth decimating trees in my yard and throughout the area I live in. Tha…
I guess most people just know best about what pests affect their area. Here in France, phylloxera is well known for having decimated our vines after having arrived from America (what saved the French wine industry was grafting our species on the roots of phylloxera-resistant but unpalatable American vines).
Same for the Argentinian ants that have founded the supercolony along the Mediterranean coast.
Re: China Drone Attack on Crop-Eating ‘Monster’ Shows 98% Kill Rate
#8There are reasonable concerns about using genetic modifications to kill things like mosquitos, but why don’t we use this tech against invasive species which we want to be absolutely removed from an ecosystem?
Re: China Drone Attack on Crop-Eating ‘Monster’ Shows 98% Kill Rate
#9Targeted use of low toxicity pesticide with a 98% effective rate? More of this.
as with most claims outside verification would be nice and as with most promising outcomes what will be the effects ten to twenty years out. there is no text about what other insects may be affected by this insecticide
Re: China Drone Attack on Crop-Eating ‘Monster’ Shows 98% Kill Rate
#10There are reasonable concerns about using genetic modifications to kill things like mosquitos, but why don’t we use this tech against invasive species which we want to be absolutely removed from an ecosystem?
It's due to the concerns that a genetically modified species may return to the native ecosystem and decimating their natural habitat.