Tag Archives: pest

Mydas Flies Vs. Timber Flies: What is the Biggest Fly in the World?

Many people consider the common housefly to be a big pest, even more experience great distress when a cluster of flies hibernate in their home. But research has shown that there are two obscure species of tropical flies measuring at over three inches long, resulting in a contention for the title of the biggest fly […]

The Future of Pests: Roboroaches Used for Information Transmission

Android cockroaches could soon be scurrying into nuclear power plants and collapsed mines to locate survivors, all thanks to a thumbnail-sized backpack. Remote-controlled cockroaches: The future of cybernetic organism experiments. The future of pests looks promising as researchers have recently found a way to control cockroaches via the use of an ‘electronic backpack.’ For the […]

Augmented Reality: Pixelated Pests Used to Treat Phobias

Imagine dozens of cockroaches running uncontrollably across your hand, or a mass of bed bugs feeding on your blood. Thanks to Augmented Reality, mediated reality has now extended into the pest control world. This means that those that suffer from extreme phobias can now be gradually exposed to them by manipulating computerised imagery to project […]