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Boing Boing on MSNDrones are dumping thousands of mosquitos on HawaiiDrones are dropping pods containing thousands of mosquitoes in the forests of Hawaii. To a mosquito magnet, this is a ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNScientists Are Using Drones to Unleash Thousands of Mosquitoes in Hawaii in a Bid to Save Native Birds. Here’s How It WorksThe lab-raised, non-biting male mosquitoes are meant to breed with the invasive ones on the islands and produce sterile eggs ...
In a bold conservation move, scientists in Hawaii are using drones to release lab-bred, non-biting male mosquitoes into ...
Conservationists working to save Hawaii’s endangered, native birds are now using drones to deliver lab-reared, male ...
HILO, Hawaii (KHON2) — On November 30, the executive director from Nēnē Research and Conservation was wrapping up routine survey’s of nēnē at Queen Liliuokalani Park in Hilo when h… ...
Hawaii faces an extinction crisis: It has lost hundreds of animals in the last two centuries, including dozens of land snails and birds, largely due to the spread of non-native species like stray ...
Scientists are dropping live mosquitoes out of drones in Hawaii to protect the colourful songbirds known as honeycreepers.
The Birds, Not Mosquitoes program — a collaborative proposal by state agencies and other government, private and nonprofit organizations including U.S. Fish and Wildlife, the University of Hawaii, and ...
At least 10 birds, which included ducks, a goose and a zebra dove, had been reported dead at the property on Nov. 12. Samples from the dead birds were sent to be tested for the virus.
The dead birds are wild zebra doves, the same types of doves that were found dead at a Wahiawa duck sanctuary, where state officials confirmed Hawaii’s first cases of avian flu. Learn more ...
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