Thousands of mosquitoes are being dropped by drone over islands in Hawaii. Here’s why

Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by ...
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Idaho company uses drones to release beneficial insects for pest control

Idaho Farm Bureau Federation reports that Terravata, an Idaho-based company, is using drones by releasing beneficial insects ...
Yahoo

Startup develops game-changing drone to fight back against disease-carrying insects: 'The technology only works if ... people trust it'

A new drone developed by SORA Technology could help control mosquito populations and help eradicate the diseases they spread. Japanese tech company SORA has built drones specifically to combat the ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Odor-detecting drone uses moth antennae

NAGANO, Japan >> Researchers in Japan have developed an odor-detecting drone that uses antennae taken from insects. The “insect drone” can autonomously find its way to the source of an odor. The ...
Government Technology

Governments Turn to Tech as Spotted Lanternflies Spread

As the invasive insect spreads, putting plant populations like grapevines and their related industries at risk, governments ...
EDN

Remote-controlled flying beetles to be the next trend in droning

Remote-controlled cockroaches are thing of the past, practically considered peasantry by the remote-controlled insect community, if such a thing were to exist. Well, not really, but why settle for ...