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Not automated but one of my all time favorite methods of taking out flies and wasps was the Bug-a-Salt. Guy had a fun idea, spent a ton to make it a reality and appears to still be making it many years on. Kudos to him. https://www.bugasalt.com/
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We had a small but persistent issue with flies hanging out by our garbage cans so I purchased one of these fly traps with bait. It worked far too well. Within a day it had attracted flies from a large surrounding area. The nearly filled jar of flies had a presence I can only describe as "Stephen King-esque" just buzzing with raw malevolence. If you think one large black fly can make quite the noise I invite you to li…
Ugh. The method I devised to get rid of these large black flies from indoors: Open a door and simply herd/walk them out by making yourself big. It's surprisingly easy - so much easier than trying to swat them. They seem to instinctively avoid things moving towards them, and because of that they're pretty easy to herd.
So if you like reading this sort of thing, perhaps you'd also like seeing it 44 days before it premiers on HN. It was certainly one of the more interesting submissions.
It was kind of funny, because the author posted it a bunch of times. I think maybe they got confused that they were on the real HN, and were like "This is awesome! It's been on the front page forever!" and posted it more. Wish I knew how to contact him to let him know it's been picked up by the mainstream site.
He also posted "Neural network for automatic farm control", their previous work: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339105969_Neural_ne...
They really love using neural networks for farming. Or for cannons. Either way, it's a worthy endeavor.
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Mosquitos and many other aquatic based insects can be killed by a cup or so of vegetable oil on the water too
copper coins as well
Incidentally, this was first posted to a clone of HN that I run. I can't link it here, or in fact even mention the name. But if you go to my Twitter profile, it's my pinned tweet. So if you like reading this sort of thing, perhaps you'd also like seeing it 44 days before it premiers on HN. It was certainly one of the more interesting submissions. It was kind of funny, because the author posted it a bunch of times. I…
Curious to hear why you're running a clone of HN, and why you assert that some cool stuff shows up there before it does on HN.
Incidentally, this was first posted to a clone of HN that I run. I can't link it here, or in fact even mention the name. But if you go to my Twitter profile, it's my pinned tweet. So if you like reading this sort of thing, perhaps you'd also like seeing it 44 days before it premiers on HN. It was certainly one of the more interesting submissions. It was kind of funny, because the author posted it a bunch of times. I…
You can't post if because... it has happened before, and caused trouble? Curious to hear why you're running a clone of HN, and why you assert that some cool stuff shows up there before it does on HN.
Incidentally, this was first posted to a clone of HN that I run. I can't link it here, or in fact even mention the name. But if you go to my Twitter profile, it's my pinned tweet. So if you like reading this sort of thing, perhaps you'd also like seeing it 44 days before it premiers on HN. It was certainly one of the more interesting submissions. It was kind of funny, because the author posted it a bunch of times. I…
You can't post if because... it has happened before, and caused trouble? Curious to hear why you're running a clone of HN, and why you assert that some cool stuff shows up there before it does on HN.
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Would you have preferred the researcher to publish in Russian?
No but I am sure he has English speaking friends who could proofread it.
Why do you assume everyone in the world has native english speakers as friends, willing to do free proofreading?
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I can think of an alternative, not sure whether that would be practical, but it's possibly safer than laser: instead of shooting laser, make a turret that shoots (biodegradable, edible) soap water at the mosquitoes, in the smallest dose necessary to make the mosquito's wings stick. It would require some fluid-aerodynamics and projectile motion calculation, however.
It would probably be too slow (or you'd need crazy high pressure). The mosquito would have plenty of time tom ove out of the way, especially since it will probably make a sound when shooting the liquid. The advantage of using a laser is that it's basically instant and quiet.