This parasitic fungus will be a new future for agriculture
Parasitic fungi will be a revolution for agriculture.
It is said that artificial pesticides are like an unwilling human friend. Although we know how scary the dangers behind us are, we still have to use them, because if we let the pests multiply freely, farmers can lose everything.
So, no agriculture can completely eliminate pesticides. However, the problem that seems to have no solution has gradually become possible with the study of fungal killers by parasites.
Although still in pregnancy, this new method is said to be promising with many advantages, which you will see soon.
1. Difficult to be disabled
An insecticide never works forever, because insect populations always present mutant forms that allow them to produce enzymes that break down toxins.
Gradually, new herds will no longer be affected by the old pesticides. Therefore, insecticides are always manufactured according to the trend of increasing toxicity. Naturally, its effects also increase.
Insect fungus "eat raw" insect organs.
Insect fungus is not like that. They do not secrete toxins to kill insects, "eat raw" their organs - something that is too difficult for any bug to cope with.
2. Easy to use
After parasitizing a host of heaven and earth, fungi "metastasize" to the brain, controlling the behavior of insects, forcing them to fly to favorable places for their growth.
Imagine you have a pesticide that can multiply and spontaneously spread without requiring any care. Isn't it great?
Insects with nearly 100% parasitic fungi will cause the type to be destroyed.
3. No harm to other species
Not stopping there, the advantage is superior to that of the fungus insecticide in its specificity . Each type of fungus usually destroys only one type of bug , completely unaffected by other organisms.
What about synthetic pesticides? Destroying many life forms: from natural enemies, beneficial insects . to underground microbiota. The problem of mass honey bee deaths recently brought so many implications, a small part is also due to pesticides.
Many animals must suffer the traumatic consequences that pesticides bring and humans are not out of that number.
4. Safe to the environment
Soil and water - two resources will not be affected by the growth of these fungi.
Insect fungi have been around for a long time in the ecosystem around us but there has not been a case where they have been recorded as bacteria or viruses and then "jump" to parasites on humans.
We have yet to see any of the smallest harms these friends have on the environment. Soil and water - two resources being seriously poisoned by toxic chemicals will not be affected by the growth of these fungi.
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