fighting Pests With Sound Waves, now not Pesticides
Researchers invent a device that uses acoustics to imitate the mating name of an insect devastating Florida’s orange groves.A tiny worm is threatening your morning orange juice.
In Florida, the Asian citrus psyllid, an aphid-size creature that feeds on the stems and leaves of citrus timber, rate the juice business $three.6 billion between 2006 and 2012. The true injury from “citrus greening” comes from micro organism spread by the malicious program, which reasons leaves to show yellow and kills the tree in a few years.
Researchers are looking into new approaches to fight the pests, and one challenge makes a speciality of sound as an alternative than pesticides to disrupt the insects’ mating habits.
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Researchers invent a device that uses acoustics to imitate the mating name of an insect devastating Florida’s orange groves.A tiny worm is threatening your morning orange juice.
In Florida, the Asian citrus psyllid, an aphid-size creature that feeds on the stems and leaves of citrus timber, rate the juice business $three.6 billion between 2006 and 2012. The true injury from “citrus greening” comes from micro organism spread by the malicious program, which reasons leaves to show yellow and kills the tree in a few years.
Researchers are looking into new approaches to fight the pests, and one challenge makes a speciality of sound as an alternative than pesticides to disrupt the insects’ mating habits.
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