http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11694374
Female insect pheromones are being sprayed on male insects to encourage mating between two males rather than with insect females. This is supposedly the solution to the use of pesticides because it means that the pests harming crops will not be reproducing. The problem is that even with the use of pheromones, pesticides are still needed to keep the insect population under control when dealing with crops. Also, no one really knows how the use of pheromones to alter insect sexuality will affect the ecosystem. This is just another addition to the pattern of humans hurting the environment by trying to fix the environment that they have destroyed.
The way to deal with bugs is to not plant a lot of the same things together. Also, let the weeds grow wherever you can and plant stuff that doesn't lose when competing with weeds. Garden and field crops should be grown in arrangements that look more like meadows, with species mixed wherever possible.
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