Florida Is Now Using Drones to Fight Mosquitoes

In immoderate parts of the state (mainly the hot, humid parts), humanity’s narration with the affable insect known arsenic the mosquito tin beryllium rather contentious. Not lone bash these fantastic small pests swarm you, suck your blood, and permission unattractive splotches each implicit your skin, but they’re besides known to transport galore of the viruses that routinely termination loads of people. Now, immoderate section governments are deploying drones to assistance combat the insect scourge.

Broward County, Florida precocious began utilizing 1 of the automated devices to “spray for mosquitoes successful hard-to-reach places,” according to a study from the South Florida Sun Sentinel connected Wednesday. Local governments routinely spray mosquito breeding grounds to termination the larvae that could yet turn into dangerous, disease-carrying bugs. Until recently, teams had to beryllium sent retired to Florida’s marshy environs wherever Aedes mosquitoes (also known arsenic “Yellow fever mosquitoes”) laid their eggs. Now, Broward officials tin nonstop retired drones to get the occupation done without immoderate request for quality suffering, the Sentinel reports:

Until now, crews could walk days covering a azygous territory that’s inaccessible by truck, wading successful mud, equipped with a machete to get past bushy trees.

“These mediocre guys who person to spell successful there,” lamented Anh Ton, manager of Broward’s Highway & Bridge Maintenance Division, a part of the county’s Public Works Department, which oversees its Mosquito Control Division.

Now, the drone is traveling to wherever the breed of mosquitoes...lay their eggs.

Using drones to combat mosquitoes is not an unprecedented trend. Back successful 2013, Florida tested the usage of drones to find pools of water wherever mosquitoes could spawn successful ample numbers.

These drones, however, are getting close into the conflict with the insects, and different counties crossed the U.S. are doing the same. In California, Orange and Santa Clara counties, among others, recently began doing a akin maneuver with drones. Prior to drone use, section governments tended to trust connected larger aircraft, similar planes and helicopters to driblet pesticides connected the insects, the Associated Press has reported.