Unlike dogs and electronic sensors currently in use, the wasps are disposable. They cost pennies and take minutes to train.
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Woah. This counts for one of them ideas that anyone coulda thunk of. I think.
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Incredible. I had no idea that wasps could be trained.
I wonder if anyone will get upset with the way that the product assumes that there is no value to a wasp life. I don’t know of any other product where you’re expected to throw away the container and just let the things starve. (Mouse/rat traps don’t count; the vermin in question has, by the definition of the person placing the trap, relenquished its right to live. Also, those fruit flies you can buy for breeding in your biology class are educational in nature.)
I heard of a prof at Berkeley who put electrodes in roach brains to find out how they worked. When asked by a friend why he worked with roaches, he said, because no one cares what you do with roaches.
Dammit; I meant to mention that in my original post. Basically within the title: “another thing for the animal rights people to be upset about,” but changed it to flying noses cause it’s a funny visual, and then forgot what I was thinking of, ironically, and wrote something moronic.
Oh well…