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Dropcopter uses drone to pollinate trees
- lowry 8y agoAfter bees have disappeared.
- xchip 8y agoI really miss the bees, last year I went to a redwood park and saw no insects there, it was disheartening.
- boringg 8y agoStart up cuts out the middle man bees and replaces with its own less efficient more expensive technology while ruining the ecosystem. Cool story.
- rdlecler1 8y agoYou clearly didn’t read the article. There’s an argument here that this is more efficient.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoWhile taking away a food source for local fauna.
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- Jerry2 8y agoYeah, but where do they get the pollen from? Article omits that part completely.
- SrslyJosh 8y ago> Pollinating them at exactly the right time, and then netting the trees to prevent further pollination of other, later-opening blooms by local bees, the king blooms receive most of the tree’s energy. Jesus fucking christ.
- oblib 8y agoBeen no bees where I live for 3 years now. Same with Monarchs. This happened as new homes were built in the area and old ones sold to new owners. Almost all of them use pesticides, whereas the old timers dealt with the bugs by living with them, both good and bad.
- deogeo 8y agoWith the exception of fighting malaria, I've never before heard of using pesticide for non-agricultural purposes :(
- ryanmercer 8y ago>With the exception of fighting malaria, This combined with the topic stirs a related thought, with some scientists wanting to fight malaria by gene-editing mosquitos it's worth noting that there are some plants that are pollinated primarily, if not solely, by some species of mosquitos. Stuff like cocoa (too small for other pollinators to service), goldenrod, some orchids. >using pesticide for non-agricultural purposes Pesticides are sold all the time for non-agricultural purposes. Some examples off the top of my head since I actually just did an EPA refresher today at work that included pesticides: - Oil of Citronella is classified as a pesticide by the EPA (other governments and international agreements) for mosquitos. - Esfenvalerate and Cyphenothrin for bed bucks, again by the EPA and international agreements.
- ryanmercer 8y ago*bed bugs
- oblib 8y agoWe have a lot of ticks and chiggers in the area (Ozark Mtns) but there are better ways to deal with those than "nuking" the lawns with chemical pesticides. I started "tick dragging" using a big bath towel treated with permethrin. The permethrin stays on the towel and ticks grab onto it as you walk along dragging it behind. That works better than anything else I've tried. Diatomaceous earth works great for chiggers. But I've had a hard time convincing others to try those options.
- romwell 8y ago#notblackmirror
- ohiovr 8y agoDoesn’t replace the bees function in the greater biosphere.