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marbled paper insecticide
Spray marbled paper like halftone dots onto plants to create high-dose poison spikes that up lethality, possibly at lower doses and/or new chemicals | |
A marbled-paper spray emulsion of insecticide creates a dot-halftone like pattern of insecticide on plant leaves.
This could create dose hotspots where a much higher than usual dose of an insecticide is consumed, causing a poison spike effect at the insects physiology.
This produces a more lethal
at lower dose insecticide,even though the average amount of insecticide at the whole plant is the same as previous techniques or even a lower amount.
The poison spike effect could make some things which are not currently insecticides because their LD50 (lethality) effect is too low to become functional insecticides because of the much higher poison spike dose. That creates a wider range of possible insecticide chemicals that could be used, perhaps reducing chemical resistance.
This could be an effective use of pesticide spraying drones that are good at getting really near a plant. I think marbled splatter-dots from a traditional sprayer would aslo work.
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It's an interesting idea, but I'm concerned that the 'hit-rate'
will be reduced. |
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For example, if you're trying to control aphids, you need to
get every single one - any which get lucky can rapidly
reproduce and cause the infestation to recur. |
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Best to use the tried and tested option of a flame-thrower, then. |
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Won't anyone think of the bugs? |
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Seriously though, insect populations are dying at an
apocalyptically alarming rate. |
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Nice, the marbled path Death scythes. |
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I don't approve of insect exterminations using toxic
chemicals. |
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But this is a way to reduce the use of those chemicals, so shouldn't you disapprove of this less than the usual methods? |
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