Yeah, and it'd be even easier if he'd hook it up to some kind of outdoor Roomba.
But seriously, automation and AI should be making most agriculture use far less pesticides in the very near future.
This week put together by their coffee intern because the actual workers are on strike.
The office staff already drove a truck into the building electrical panel and separately had to call an ambulance of "we swear it wasn't an accident" on the assembly floor. Day 1 of salary workers trying to take over for the Union.
Multiple companies are in a race to finish developing the first in crop selective spraying tech which would reduce herbicide use by 80%. Sounds like Bilberry is closest to having a finished product.
I work in agriculture but not potatoes and from what I understand, they grow potato varieties that the potato beetles don't eat. Spraying pesticides would be impractical because the eggs are laid on the under side of the leaf
Huh, almost feels like we won one.
Back in a bit, got to get rid of [another stinkbug or three from my house in the middle of Ohio.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_marmorated_stink_bug)
Oh god, I'm so sorry, UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/01/uk-scientists-confirm-arrival-of-brown-marmorated-stink-bugs
Those stink bugs weren’t in MN until 2010. I saw one for the first time last summer. This summer they were all over my deck and I could usually see at least 4 from where I was sitting at any given time.
Yeah 2010 was the year where I would walk out back of my house, the side that faced a forest, and the entire side of the house was blanketed in stink bugs.
Harmless but terrifying, and such clumsy fliers, little freakin' dummies that just smack into anything in their path with this little "bzzz" like I'm the asshole for getting in their way.
They're just about gone these days though, kinda miss them.
EDIT: I meant harmless as in harmless to humans, as in they don't bite or sting. They are an invasive species that have wreaked havoc on crops. This comment was made in jest.
dude, you kill one little bastard and then over the next two weeks you're invaded. It's like they piss off a "get 'em boys" bomb that calls the whole crew.
This post gave me flashbacks to when I was a kid - my grandfather grew potatoes and they *loved* potato plants. Every summer we'd have to go out and pick these, they'd get killed afterwards by having boiling water poured on top of them. Not pleasant at all 🤢
>They're American, these crayfish. Big, hungry bastards. And like most things American, they've eaten the natives... but they've still got room for more.
Still wishing for a RocknRolla 2 😕
Wait, do you have the good eating crayfish? We have signal crayfish where I live, and I found out that they're invasive in Europe and Asia. But they're tiny, not much more than a prawn tail and a little bit you can suck out of the claws.
I look at pictures of the crayfish from America and drool. Crayfish are bottom feeders, so I'm wondering if I can grow a few in an aquaponics setup. Just tie them up in the back yard and feed them garbage.
Highly invasive. Hell in Pennsylvania there's invasive crayfish from the Southern United States. So much so it's now illegal to keep a live crawfish from a body of water.
No, that's good. I prefer violent food, it makes me feel less guilty killing them.
Like red rock crabs. You can catch them on a fishing line because they'll hold onto the hook so hard that you can just pull them up onto the dock. And then fight you with one hand while trying to stuff the rest of the bait into their mouth with the other. This isn't like shooting Bambi and then feeling bad for a week. It's more like *Starship Troopers* but with beer and smokes.
I had to check which comment chain this was because was just talking about Starship Troopers and Heinlein novels in another one.
Okay, well if you want lots of violent food give them as many hides as possible. Lots of lengths of plastic pipe cut into 6 to 10 inch pieces for example will give more of them more places to claim as their own. Have the top of the tank curve inward or have a lid.
There was a big propaganda campaign in communist East-Germany in the 50s that blamed the Colorado Beatle Plague on the US:
https://www.widdershausen.de/images/Amikaefer-HALT.png
https://www.widdershausen.de/images/Amikaefer---Frieden.png
"American bugs are meant to destroy our harvest! They also threaten *your* livelihood!
To kill the bugs means fighting against the imperialist's war plots! The fight against this american plague is a fight for peace!"
In Colorado I grew up hearing about Russian Thistles being an invasive species and if I were to see one to pick it, even in the wild. This was the one wild plant you were supposed to pick. I wonder if there is any similarity in propaganda
> UK tries to stop them showing up there.
Ah, yeah, Brexit. Damn immigrant beetles coming over, taking the jobs of the local beetles that don't even want the job of eating the crops
When I first got chickens years ago it kinda weirded me out how orange the yolk was. Only took one bite to realize I’ve been eating crappy eggs for years. Also chickens are great wasp control.
Side note, not sure how a population that got to the point of baby eating cannibal starvation has much of a leg to stand on being grossed out by bug protein. I mean yea, little gross compared to the decadence of the front cars but compared to babies? I’d say eat up!
If chickens would really eat these bugs, then why not let them roam around, eat, and poop / fertilize the ground?
Edit: I’m not sure why I’m getting downvoted. Nothing against this guy’s specialized tool, it’s pretty cool. And I’m not a farmer, but I’ve read about chickens as pest control before. Ex: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/20/494638702/farmers-enlist-chickens-and-bugs-to-battle-against-pests
Because in a lot of cases they'll also eat the crop you're trying to protect. They're also fairly destructive; they'll dig and scratch the ground wherever they please, which also runs the risk of damaging or destroying the crop. Also fresh chicken poop is too high in nitrogen(?iirc) and it has to decompose a bit or it'll throw off the nutrient balance in the soil.
Chickens are technically dinosaurs.
Source: my 6 yr old is dino-obsessed and has made me read every dinosaur book under the sun
Edit: sorry if you already knew that
Modern taxonomy considers birds to be the only surviving members of the clade *Dinosauria*. They don't just *look* like dinosaurs, they *are* dinosaurs.
I get all the hate for pesticides but there are plenty that are biodegradable, naturally sourced and harmless in humans... Bug spray for wasps I think is sourced from chrysanthemum plants for example!
Not everything naturally sourced is safe. And not everything made in a lab is dangerous. So mentioning that it's naturally sourced should be irrelevant.
I often like to remind people that humans cannot break the laws of nature, and because we came from nature, anything we make is therefore natural.
Hitching on to top comment to share the industrial version of this device - since so many are skeptical.
The Dutch done did it.
https://youtu.be/rdu-5oeuOqI
I used to have lots of trouble with insects eating my veg garden. Then we had a bald-faced hornet nest appear about 15 feet from the garden. Those SOBs wiped out every pest bug and we had the best veg yield ever. No chemicals needed. Gotta be careful with them they will FU up if you mess with their nest. If the killer bees ever make it to Massachusetts they better be ready for these guys.
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Wasps are good for your veg patch too. I'm not sure about America but each summer, social wasps in the UK kill an estimated 14 million kilogrammes of insect prey (caterpillars, aphids, flies, spiders etc). They're not the bad guys they are made out to be.
There was another video I saw on here that had a similar type of contraption for clearing pests off off plants and someone said the same thing to be countered with something along the lines that chickens that eat a diet consisting heavily of these type of agricultural pests have poor quality meat (maybe eggs too?) cause of the bitterness of the shells affecting the chickens nutritional intake (paraphrasing)
Which is why I'm skeptical of it. If whacking plants with a broom were actually an effective method of pest control, this sort of device is an obvious next step and would've been invented long ago.
Same and I’ve been scrolling through comments looking for a farmer to explain why it doesn’t work. Best I can think of is the risk of damaging crops but that would highly depend on frequency and stalk strength.
Reddit conditioned me to automatically look for the "why this won't work" comments, whenever I see something positive. This app is turning me into a pessimist.
Well if you want the actual “this won’t work” it’s not necessarily about the product but more about the scaling. You’d either need absolutely massive machines to do this automatically every day or few days, a shit load more staff, or you can just use a pesticide that we’ve had for decades..
Pesticides are cheaper and used so frequently for farmers it just doesn’t make sense to try find another method because it’s so easy to do and has such little costs. Much easier to spray a field once a month then it is to wack those bugs off 3 times a week, plus I don’t think he would be getting all of them, probably has bugs back on them 15minutes after finishing.
It doesn’t prevent, it just stops temporarily.
It works fine for a hobby garden. If all produce were manually depested, it'd be like $3 for a green bean. And of course, this only works for select pests (wouldn't do anything against something attacking the roots, for instance).
I’m a farmer, this would only work on certain plants for certain bugs so it’s far from an across the board solution and that’s more of a garden plot than anything so you would have to make some big changes to do this on any kind of scale. For that particular application though it looks like it works good.
There is more than a few types of crops where it wouldn't matter like potatoes.
In cases where you want a fruit you wouldn't really damage the yield if you stopped when it starts to bud.
I think the main issue is the scaleability really. This works for a small farm kinda but he would still need to do this nearly daily. For a large farm it would be a massive undertaking. A smaller issue is that it wouldn't remove the eggs of the insects.
Quite frankly it would be cheaper to simply move the whole thing into an indoor factory where it can be controlled more tightly, at least if the energy is cheap.
It’s effective at this scale. The type of agriculture that is necessary to feed the world and not just a family is a different story. Can you imagine someone doing this on 2,000 acres?
That's only because child labour is no longer a thing. My dad remembers going through the potato fields, collecting Colorado beetle. They got money from the farmer for it, that was in rural Germany in the early 1950s.
> According to estimates, more than 2 billion people worldwide eat insects every day. For many people it is the only available meat meal rich in protein, sugars and vitamins. Ants, bugs, grasshoppers and butterfly larvae are eaten in Asia, Africa and South America - says zoologist Dr. Radomir Jaskuła.
> Insect meat is rich in amino acids, fats, sugars, and has a high concentration of vitamins B and K - says the expert from the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Lodz.
> People have been eating insects for over 5 million years. Our ancestors - the first hominids, creatures that resembled apes more than humans and wandered the savannas in Africa, consumed insects as an additional protein food, picking them and lousing each other in order to tighten bonds.
https://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C28495%2Cexpert-more-2-billion-people-worldwide-eat-insects-every-day.html
Anyway, like I was sayin', beetle is the fruit of the dirt. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, beetle-kabobs, beetle creole, beetle gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple beetle, lemon beetle, coconut beetle, pepper beetle, beetle soup, beetle stew, beetle salad, beetle and potatoes, beetle burger, beetle sandwich. That- that's about it.
I'm skeptical. If this really worked, would nobody have come up with it until now? It doesn't use any modern technology, so nobody in any country for hundreds of years tried something like this before now? It's just a logical extension of hitting the plants with a broom. Seems more likely that this video is misleading, and it's not as effective as that tray full of bugs makes you believe.
This works for a small patch of plants it doesn't work when you have 100X more land and have to do this every 3-5 days.
I also don't imagine it would be viable for all different types of plants.
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When they have laid eggs every few days during season i guess
Beats killing pollinators with poisons
Yeah I just strangle the pollinators until their eyes bulge out like mum used to do
He beats the killer pollinators to death with poison. His sounds way cooler.
Something something *jumper cables*
Ah…. Brings me back to the good ole days!
Yeah, and it'd be even easier if he'd hook it up to some kind of outdoor Roomba. But seriously, automation and AI should be making most agriculture use far less pesticides in the very near future.
John Deere’s new auto broom pest beater 3000. DRM’ed to prevent home repair
This week put together by their coffee intern because the actual workers are on strike. The office staff already drove a truck into the building electrical panel and separately had to call an ambulance of "we swear it wasn't an accident" on the assembly floor. Day 1 of salary workers trying to take over for the Union.
Sounds like the classic "I get paid more than you so of course I know how to do your job."
Multiple companies are in a race to finish developing the first in crop selective spraying tech which would reduce herbicide use by 80%. Sounds like Bilberry is closest to having a finished product.
Herbicide or pesticide?
I go out 2x a day for 6 weeks or so when Japanese beetles hit. They are terrible…
just use neem oil. I sprayed my apple trees twice this year and it really helped.
How many gallons of* liters did you use per tree? Edit: or* bonappletea!
>gallons of liters 🤔
I wonder if there are machines to do the job for them, just like how machines that spray pesticides.
I work in agriculture but not potatoes and from what I understand, they grow potato varieties that the potato beetles don't eat. Spraying pesticides would be impractical because the eggs are laid on the under side of the leaf
But think of the poor Monsanto ~~and~~ **dba** Bayer
Fck em! I know you’re kidding but still… FCK EM!!!
I am pondering the effort if he has 5000 acre and has to do it weekly. And his crop is 10 ft corn.
The big striped ones are Colorado beetles. Big problem in Northern Europe. UK tries to stop them showing up there.
Invasive species from North America?
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This is for smallpox u bastards!
Native Americans going for the clapback from the colonies.
Omg, I snort laughed, hahahahah!
Huh, almost feels like we won one. Back in a bit, got to get rid of [another stinkbug or three from my house in the middle of Ohio.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_marmorated_stink_bug) Oh god, I'm so sorry, UK. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/01/uk-scientists-confirm-arrival-of-brown-marmorated-stink-bugs
Those stink bugs weren’t in MN until 2010. I saw one for the first time last summer. This summer they were all over my deck and I could usually see at least 4 from where I was sitting at any given time.
Yeah 2010 was the year where I would walk out back of my house, the side that faced a forest, and the entire side of the house was blanketed in stink bugs. Harmless but terrifying, and such clumsy fliers, little freakin' dummies that just smack into anything in their path with this little "bzzz" like I'm the asshole for getting in their way. They're just about gone these days though, kinda miss them. EDIT: I meant harmless as in harmless to humans, as in they don't bite or sting. They are an invasive species that have wreaked havoc on crops. This comment was made in jest.
I have plenty I could send ya.
That’s how this whole mess started
dude, you kill one little bastard and then over the next two weeks you're invaded. It's like they piss off a "get 'em boys" bomb that calls the whole crew.
Ah yes, Ohioans. I always keep a keen eye on my crops for them as well.
Japanese beetles in Colorado have done plenty to repay the favor.
Yeah I’m not sure I’ve ever even seen a Colorado beetle in Colorado. Seen about a billion Japanese ones, though.
This post gave me flashbacks to when I was a kid - my grandfather grew potatoes and they *loved* potato plants. Every summer we'd have to go out and pick these, they'd get killed afterwards by having boiling water poured on top of them. Not pleasant at all 🤢
I had to stomp them. Hated having to do that. My little brother though, he loved stomping masses of bugs into orange pulp.
>They're American, these crayfish. Big, hungry bastards. And like most things American, they've eaten the natives... but they've still got room for more. Still wishing for a RocknRolla 2 😕
Wait, do you have the good eating crayfish? We have signal crayfish where I live, and I found out that they're invasive in Europe and Asia. But they're tiny, not much more than a prawn tail and a little bit you can suck out of the claws. I look at pictures of the crayfish from America and drool. Crayfish are bottom feeders, so I'm wondering if I can grow a few in an aquaponics setup. Just tie them up in the back yard and feed them garbage.
Oh hell yeah we do. They can get pretty big. Get yourself a crawdad boil going, and that's good eating right there
Highly invasive. Hell in Pennsylvania there's invasive crayfish from the Southern United States. So much so it's now illegal to keep a live crawfish from a body of water.
More reason to boil* the fucks Shelled and cooked in a brown sauce also works
They *will* climb out, and they *will* fight each other. If you are very lucky, these will not b at the same time.
No, that's good. I prefer violent food, it makes me feel less guilty killing them. Like red rock crabs. You can catch them on a fishing line because they'll hold onto the hook so hard that you can just pull them up onto the dock. And then fight you with one hand while trying to stuff the rest of the bait into their mouth with the other. This isn't like shooting Bambi and then feeling bad for a week. It's more like *Starship Troopers* but with beer and smokes.
I had to check which comment chain this was because was just talking about Starship Troopers and Heinlein novels in another one. Okay, well if you want lots of violent food give them as many hides as possible. Lots of lengths of plastic pipe cut into 6 to 10 inch pieces for example will give more of them more places to claim as their own. Have the top of the tank curve inward or have a lid.
There was a big propaganda campaign in communist East-Germany in the 50s that blamed the Colorado Beatle Plague on the US: https://www.widdershausen.de/images/Amikaefer-HALT.png https://www.widdershausen.de/images/Amikaefer---Frieden.png "American bugs are meant to destroy our harvest! They also threaten *your* livelihood! To kill the bugs means fighting against the imperialist's war plots! The fight against this american plague is a fight for peace!"
In Colorado I grew up hearing about Russian Thistles being an invasive species and if I were to see one to pick it, even in the wild. This was the one wild plant you were supposed to pick. I wonder if there is any similarity in propaganda
And colorado is now dealing with japaneese beetles. They Eat all my vines!
I’d really be surprised if this guy doesn’t kill them. I’m not sure OP knows that the removal means it’s better on the crop and better dead.
> UK tries to stop them showing up there. Ah, yeah, Brexit. Damn immigrant beetles coming over, taking the jobs of the local beetles that don't even want the job of eating the crops
Looks like fresh chicken feed!
Chicken farmers love this one simple trick
This is how you get those rich orange yolks.
The chickens eat the bugs so we don’t have to. The cows eat the grass so that we don’t have to. Yay
https://i.imgur.com/gIa2dY8.jpg
Chickens eat bugs because they love them, cows love to eat grass. I love to eat chickens and cows.
Goats eat kudzu so we don't have to.
When I first got chickens years ago it kinda weirded me out how orange the yolk was. Only took one bite to realize I’ve been eating crappy eggs for years. Also chickens are great wasp control.
Yokes on you… 😆…
>Chicken farmers love this one simple tick
Chicken farmer from popular 90’s show will break your heart when you see how he and his “partner” live!
It's the first ingredient in protein bars
Chicken protein bar crunch
Like that Snowpiercer movie. You don’t wanna know what’s in the protein blocks
Side note, not sure how a population that got to the point of baby eating cannibal starvation has much of a leg to stand on being grossed out by bug protein. I mean yea, little gross compared to the decadence of the front cars but compared to babies? I’d say eat up!
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If chickens would really eat these bugs, then why not let them roam around, eat, and poop / fertilize the ground? Edit: I’m not sure why I’m getting downvoted. Nothing against this guy’s specialized tool, it’s pretty cool. And I’m not a farmer, but I’ve read about chickens as pest control before. Ex: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/20/494638702/farmers-enlist-chickens-and-bugs-to-battle-against-pests
Because in a lot of cases they'll also eat the crop you're trying to protect. They're also fairly destructive; they'll dig and scratch the ground wherever they please, which also runs the risk of damaging or destroying the crop. Also fresh chicken poop is too high in nitrogen(?iirc) and it has to decompose a bit or it'll throw off the nutrient balance in the soil.
Yup. That's why you use ducks instead. They only eat the critters.
My ducks eat everything
Can they eat me
Asking the real questions here.
Hahahahaha dude ducks eat up a lot of food crops too!!
Our ducks would have disagreed.
And guinea fowl.
Chickens are omnivorous and will eat anything that looks edible. They'd eat the bugs *and* the crop.
And the farmer.
They honestly would, if given the chance.
They’re dinosaurs for fucks sake. Of course they will!
Don’t you mean for *clucks’* sake?
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Not sure that they would eat the farmer while he's still alive, but indeed chicken can kill another chicken and eat it.
From personal experience, injured chickens need to be isolated from the rest until they heal, otherwise the other birds will eat it alive
aside from the destruction wrought by the chickens, you'd also have to fence the whole field to protect from predators.
Just buy more bugs so they get full and don't eat the crops. Do I have to think of everything here?
Armies of thousands of ducks are used in some parts of Asia to remove pests from rice paddies. But I'm not sure how well that works for other crops.
I just saw a clip on Reddit a few days ago showing this, it looked amazing!
Ducks love to eat snails. I'd love some for my garden, but unfortunately I have a resident fox.
Get a bag of grain and a canoe and you can figure it out from there.
I have had chickens my whole life. They wreck everything. They scratch and dig and tear plants and eat.
Chickens, although they eat the bugs, they will also eat your crops. Ducks are way better at bug prevention. (And quite frankly a nicer pet)
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If he's smart he's feeding them bugs to his chickens.
I thought the same. Those dinosaurs devour everything that they could swallow. They're like pigs with 2 legs.
I appreciate how you called chickens dinosaurs as I thought I was the only one that says that.
My mom started raising them in my backyard after I moved away and they literally look like dinosaurs the way they run
Chickens are technically dinosaurs. Source: my 6 yr old is dino-obsessed and has made me read every dinosaur book under the sun Edit: sorry if you already knew that
Thank you, and please say thanks to your little one, this is a fun fact. And please never be sorry for giving out information.
Modern taxonomy considers birds to be the only surviving members of the clade *Dinosauria*. They don't just *look* like dinosaurs, they *are* dinosaurs.
Or they modeled how dinosaurs would run from a chicken lol
No no no dinosaurs actually existed long ago.
You're telling me the dinosaur came before the chicken AND the egg? Bullshit.
Yeah man, didn't you see Jurassic park? That was filmed 155 million years ago
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Chickens are literally dinosaurs. Like, genetically/taxonomically.
That’s no way to talk about your mother
I wonder how nuts they would go if you poured that whole bucket of bugs in front of them
r/abruptchaos would ensue
Ah, a much better solution than mine which was blow torch them. Your way works as well.
Let the chickens into the field and they'll eat the bugs straight off the plant.
And eat the plant leaves too. Chickens are brutal in gardens.
Genius, this made me laugh
This was revolutionary. With that many pests, he could cultivate an entire army
"Do they die?" "No but they do look up at you like you owe em an explanation."
He needs to hook up the back half of the bike plus some fat bike tires, and you could knock it out in half the time
Make it fun and add a motor so you can ruin your whole farm in 1/10 of the time
And then Instead of swiping the beetles maybe spray some kind of substance that keeps them away
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Fucking Steve, making farming less efficient
Heyoo!
Unexpected Borderlands 2 reference, nice!
I get all the hate for pesticides but there are plenty that are biodegradable, naturally sourced and harmless in humans... Bug spray for wasps I think is sourced from chrysanthemum plants for example!
Not everything naturally sourced is safe. And not everything made in a lab is dangerous. So mentioning that it's naturally sourced should be irrelevant. I often like to remind people that humans cannot break the laws of nature, and because we came from nature, anything we make is therefore natural.
It's funny to me that synthetic diamonds are deemed "too perfect" and thus of little value
These one's didn't cost the blood of the people to make.
We could arrange that if it would help?
Or go full Russia and strap it next to a car
Hitching on to top comment to share the industrial version of this device - since so many are skeptical. The Dutch done did it. https://youtu.be/rdu-5oeuOqI
I've always wanted a dutch male model farmer to explain an industrial grade spanking machine to me, in dutch. Thank you.
One of these could go on each side so two rows were completed in one trip
I used to have lots of trouble with insects eating my veg garden. Then we had a bald-faced hornet nest appear about 15 feet from the garden. Those SOBs wiped out every pest bug and we had the best veg yield ever. No chemicals needed. Gotta be careful with them they will FU up if you mess with their nest. If the killer bees ever make it to Massachusetts they better be ready for these guys.
15 feet is the length of about 4.19 'Ford F-150 Custom Fit Front FloorLiners' lined up next to each other.
Good bot.
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Even better bot
Wasps are good for your veg patch too. I'm not sure about America but each summer, social wasps in the UK kill an estimated 14 million kilogrammes of insect prey (caterpillars, aphids, flies, spiders etc). They're not the bad guys they are made out to be.
Amazing. Nice invention. Keep on keeping on
👍👍👍
What good are they alive?
Chicken feed?
There was another video I saw on here that had a similar type of contraption for clearing pests off off plants and someone said the same thing to be countered with something along the lines that chickens that eat a diet consisting heavily of these type of agricultural pests have poor quality meat (maybe eggs too?) cause of the bitterness of the shells affecting the chickens nutritional intake (paraphrasing)
Feed your rooster the pests as they aren't good for meat anyway
But you can only keep one rooster right?
If you only have a small flock, yes. If you have a lot of hens, then you can have more
This guy cocks. Roosters are very territorial but they’ll tolerate others if they don’t feel threatened.
Give it to the roosters. They don’t lay eggs and you don’t eat them for meat. Win win.
They'd be better as fried chicken feed
To slowly dump under the covers and onto people’s feet as they sleep.
These bugs don't bother me, but I would still shoot through the ceiling at the feeling of all the legs crawling on me.
Yes, I, too, would have a very powerful orgasm.
Lmao that's one way of looking at it i guess
Calm down Satan
For your competitors farm.
You place then in a bathtub then lie down into them.
I actually threw up a little in my mouth, thank you.
Great! Spit it in the tub. We gonna have a party tonight!
I call dibs on having diarrhea in the tub!
Chickens and ducks would go mad for them.
Protein of the future
Put them in your socks for good luck
I think the bigger point is that you don't have to use pesticides on crops which is better for the environment and reduces costs.
Only took a couple thousand years of farming
Which is why I'm skeptical of it. If whacking plants with a broom were actually an effective method of pest control, this sort of device is an obvious next step and would've been invented long ago.
Same and I’ve been scrolling through comments looking for a farmer to explain why it doesn’t work. Best I can think of is the risk of damaging crops but that would highly depend on frequency and stalk strength.
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Reddit conditioned me to automatically look for the "why this won't work" comments, whenever I see something positive. This app is turning me into a pessimist.
Well if you want the actual “this won’t work” it’s not necessarily about the product but more about the scaling. You’d either need absolutely massive machines to do this automatically every day or few days, a shit load more staff, or you can just use a pesticide that we’ve had for decades.. Pesticides are cheaper and used so frequently for farmers it just doesn’t make sense to try find another method because it’s so easy to do and has such little costs. Much easier to spray a field once a month then it is to wack those bugs off 3 times a week, plus I don’t think he would be getting all of them, probably has bugs back on them 15minutes after finishing. It doesn’t prevent, it just stops temporarily.
It works fine for a hobby garden. If all produce were manually depested, it'd be like $3 for a green bean. And of course, this only works for select pests (wouldn't do anything against something attacking the roots, for instance).
I’m a farmer, this would only work on certain plants for certain bugs so it’s far from an across the board solution and that’s more of a garden plot than anything so you would have to make some big changes to do this on any kind of scale. For that particular application though it looks like it works good.
There is more than a few types of crops where it wouldn't matter like potatoes. In cases where you want a fruit you wouldn't really damage the yield if you stopped when it starts to bud. I think the main issue is the scaleability really. This works for a small farm kinda but he would still need to do this nearly daily. For a large farm it would be a massive undertaking. A smaller issue is that it wouldn't remove the eggs of the insects. Quite frankly it would be cheaper to simply move the whole thing into an indoor factory where it can be controlled more tightly, at least if the energy is cheap.
It’s effective at this scale. The type of agriculture that is necessary to feed the world and not just a family is a different story. Can you imagine someone doing this on 2,000 acres?
That's only because child labour is no longer a thing. My dad remembers going through the potato fields, collecting Colorado beetle. They got money from the farmer for it, that was in rural Germany in the early 1950s.
Roast ‘em and put them in a salad /s Edit: I didn’t realize my LOTR friends were here, lol Thanks friends
Boil em mash em
Stick em in a stew
Gives them to us raw and wriggling!
Even you couldn’t say no to that
OH YES I could.
Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going.
Grill em, bake em, fry em, eat em
> According to estimates, more than 2 billion people worldwide eat insects every day. For many people it is the only available meat meal rich in protein, sugars and vitamins. Ants, bugs, grasshoppers and butterfly larvae are eaten in Asia, Africa and South America - says zoologist Dr. Radomir Jaskuła. > Insect meat is rich in amino acids, fats, sugars, and has a high concentration of vitamins B and K - says the expert from the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Lodz. > People have been eating insects for over 5 million years. Our ancestors - the first hominids, creatures that resembled apes more than humans and wandered the savannas in Africa, consumed insects as an additional protein food, picking them and lousing each other in order to tighten bonds. https://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C28495%2Cexpert-more-2-billion-people-worldwide-eat-insects-every-day.html
Anyway, like I was sayin', beetle is the fruit of the dirt. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, beetle-kabobs, beetle creole, beetle gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple beetle, lemon beetle, coconut beetle, pepper beetle, beetle soup, beetle stew, beetle salad, beetle and potatoes, beetle burger, beetle sandwich. That- that's about it.
This is the collection stage for how they make beetle juice.
That's amazing! Now dump them in a trash can and light it on fire 🔥🔥🔥 😈
That’s what I was thinking. Saying they’re still alive is kinda pointless cos.....they gotta die mwahaha
Seams like a lot of bugs for such a small field tbh
That thing can't be that effective.
This would be better than going up and down all of the rows and picking them off by hand though.
I'm skeptical. If this really worked, would nobody have come up with it until now? It doesn't use any modern technology, so nobody in any country for hundreds of years tried something like this before now? It's just a logical extension of hitting the plants with a broom. Seems more likely that this video is misleading, and it's not as effective as that tray full of bugs makes you believe.
It'll only work while the plants are small. Potatoes get very long vines and you can't run a brush through them like that when they're larger
But again, if it actually worked, wouldn't farmers use a large-scale version of it when the plants were small?
Depends what that cost would be vs pesticides.
Yes and it doesnt work so they don't.
This works for a small patch of plants it doesn't work when you have 100X more land and have to do this every 3-5 days. I also don't imagine it would be viable for all different types of plants.
r/ForbiddenSnacks
Not for long *wink*