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Music professor receives patent to help fight beetles ravaging Western forests
- blakesterz 10y agoI wonder if something like this can be done for the Emerald Ash Borers as well. I'd love to see those things destroyed before they wipe out the Ash Trees here in the East.
- sheraz 10y agoI read this as "Music professor receives patent to help fight Beatles ravaging Western music."
- greeneggs 10y agoHere, I gather, is the patent (from 2014): https://www.google.com/patents/WO2012078814A3 https://www.google.com/patents/WO2012078814A3 "Use of acoustics to disrupt and deter wood-infesting insects and other invertebrates from and within trees and wood products "The invention comprises a device and method for impacting the behavior of invertebrates that infest wood, without the use of chemicals. In particular, the invention is useful for impacting the behavior of woodboring invertebrates, which infest wood products, lumber and the woody portions of plants and trees. The invention utilizes acoustic (sonic) agents which may be optionally modulated with specific signals, to cause negative effects on the normal behaviors exhibited by wood-infesting invertebrates, which may result in the invertebrates being injured or killed, unable to reproduce, or caused to flee the wood that the invertebrates are infesting."
- joshuaheard 10y agoSo how does the patent fight beetles? The article never explained the technology. Disappointing.
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- fakeshoes 10y agoMusic professor revives patient to help fight Beatles ravaging Western forests