United States uses drones to bomb their fields with millions of sterile moths.

They allow the pest to be eliminated without using pesticides by producing fertilization with sterile males and females..

The American equivalent of the department of agriculture, the USDA, has proposed a almost foolproof plan to fight the moth infestation that multiply thanks to monoculture - the lack of variety of flora in the countryside- and they destroy the cotton plantations: make fertile females have sex with sterile males.

For this it applies a program in three phases. The first takes place in the laboratory, where moth worms are raised and fed a diet that causes them to turn red. This will come in handy later., when the farmer wants to distinguish the bad worms from the less bad ones.

Then, they let themselves grow and this generation of moths - millions of individuals- is bombarded with radiation. Not much, not a little: enough for the red moth to lose the ability to reproduce.

Then the second phase begins. How releasing the moths plant by plant would be a titanic task, simply they drop, like bombs, over the fields infested with the plague.

This task is carried out with a drone that carries bug launchers under its wings that provide relief for several seconds when it flies over the target.

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Red moths finally land in cotton fields, where their companions raised in freedom - pink in color- They are feasting on a menu based on cotton plants.

Once there, the two generations mix with each other, so that the sterile induces in the fertile a state similar to pregnancy that simply blocks subsequent reproduction.

Thus their reproductive cycle is cut short, without the need to use transgenic techniques, and without resorting to pesticides or direct intervention on the plants. As normal moths and radioactive moths die without laying eggs, the wound remits.