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When I was young, back in the 1980’s, and I was in a garage wrenching on a motor or something at night during the Summertime lots of big bugs would bounce around & off the lights. June bugs, cool looking giant green moths,… not just the little no-see-ums which are all that are attracted to the incandescent light bulbs in my garage these days.
I just wondered if it was just where I live that there’s been a big disappearance of the big, night-time, bugs?
I grew up near the Mississippi River, from what I’ve learned, the crop dusting areoplanes and helicopters cannot crop dust near the river due to this, that, or the other thing.
I recently moved more in-land a bit and I was totally Shocked at how much crop dusting takes place here in Iowa. It’s like I live near an airport with daily Kamikaze blitz’s. It’s obscene and I had no idea this was going on. …Did you?The biggest enemy to Industrial Ag (I don’t think of them as farmers, they’re in a different category) is Japanese Beetles attacking corn and soybeans.
It seems, many other bugs have been rubbed out as a result of their extermination project.
I think, paper nest making wasps have been all but eliminated from these parts due to the attack against the Japanese beetle. I can only wonder what else has been eliminated.There’s supposed to be a harmless micro-organism which attacks and destroys the Japanese Beetle larvae which people can apply to ground, but, I don’t think they are spraying that. I wonder, why?
It’s odd to me that it’s considered A-ok for these crop dusting activities to be done so close to homes. Imagine a helicopter (or now, drones x 10,000?) spraying poison 15′ from your open kitchen window. ..In a Libertarian world, there’d be some kind of … barrier to doing such, I think.
But, not in this world.It’s no wonder it’s said that glyphosate is permanently in the atmosphere,… I wonder, what else is?
/Rant OFF.
Bizarro World.
Crop dusting drones are a much more precise tool for spraying crops. They’ve been used in Japan for years for exactly the reasons you complain about from traditional methods. Think fine tipped paintbrush vs roller or spray gun.
https://global.yamaha-motor.com/about/business/unmanned-helicopters/
Combining multi-spectral cameras, secret sauce software and tightly controlled sprayers allows farmers to use much less pesticide and fertilizer. A survey flight is done, problem areas are identified and then the right mix is applied to the area. And it is far safer than using manned aircraft.
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