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Scientists Use Sex-Crazed Bugs As Pesticide 107

Posted by samzenpus on Friday March 19, 2010 @07:41PM from the doin'-it-hopper-style dept.

ByronScott writes "In today's 'gross news' category, some female insects just might be getting lucky. As an alternative to toxic pesticides, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have created 'super-sexed' sterilized male leafhoppers to knock bug boots with females in the wild, resulting in decreased populations. Yes, that means that the female bugs will miss out on the joys of motherhood, but the idea that the insects will be having some fun instead of being gassed to death by poisons is pretty cool."

Comment Re:How about the steriod injected current meat? (Score 1) 598

by GulagMoosh on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @10:26PM (#22061308) Attached to: US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible

That's rather obvious. The current methods for breeding produce superior results. Look at the current market and inbreeding of beef. It's significantly cheaper to purchase the sperm and animals to produce a line of quality feed cattle than it is to clone one animal. The clone gives you a few years of production...the breeding traits are well established.

Perhaps cloning a champion bull might have benefits? A cow doesn't have the payoff necessary. I wonder what the black market will be when they can clone from sperm cheaply?

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