Pesticide-proof mutant insects!

Okay, i will go over the process of creating mutant insects that just might cripple anything plant related (if you have the time and money to make an army of them ;) ).
NOTE: This is for information purposes ONLY!!!! It's not my fault if a farmer blows your head off or if you shorten your lifespan, get sued, etc.
That being said, let us mutate!!!

Step 1: Get a cage of some sort.

Like the step says, get a cage. I recommend a steel crate; like the ones used for holding dogs and chickens n stuff. Then line it with some screen wire, the kind used for screen doors. Epoxy, tape, burn, weld, spit; do whatever to make it stick. Line it completely so no insect will escape or be left behind.

Comments

[teatimest]

It would be easier to use EMS to generate mutations in the genome of the insects you are using.

[sparks4289]

someone should try this with bees to help out the worlds bee population

[vidarnorway]

Yea Killer bees was a mutation,,,,,,, how grate was that,,,, better to not use pesticide in the first place,, what will the next generation bees become,,, who know

[seamaas]

that stuff is illegal

[ElizabethGreene]

The real explanation for why this works is pretty straightforward. You take a large population and use a poison to kill off half of them. If you assume that all of the bugs get an equal amount of poison, then the ones that don't die must have some natural resistance. When those resistant individuals breed, they pass the resistance on to their offspring. By repeating that process many times, you build up a combination of different genes that create a genetic immunity to the poison.

This is similar to how antibiotic resistance develops in germs. People don't take full courses of antibiotics and are left with small populations with some resistance to the medication. Those resistant "bugs" multiply and pass the resistance on to their offspring. Skip forward a few million generations and Viola, bugs that eat penicillin for breakfast.

[Arc Trooper 5555]

Run It's waspzilla!!!!

[The Tinkerer]

Interesting instructable.

[Pie Ninja]

lol, this song comes to mind when I read this =P

The Nausicaa AMV has better audio quality, it should be in therelated videas section.

[ichipoodle]

i make shooting things, yes you can =). Weissensteinburg, no, i have not. LasVegas, thank you for the heads up. robertm, you have proven my point better than i could have =) muahahaha. Tool Using Animal, thank you =)

[Weissensteinburg]

So, in other words, your instructable is a theory that you haven't personally proven, and the images are pictures that you have stolen off the internet?

[Aeshir]

UH OH HE STOLZDED THE PICATOORES OFF THE INTERNETS! SOMEONE CALL THE R-I-DUBBLE-A! Lol, I just had to say that.

[Weissensteinburg]

fyi..for every picture you steal, if the owner finds out, you can be forced to shell out 150,000 bucks.

[ReCreate]

Cool,Im a millionaire!

[ReCreate]

Only if he can get through my spoofed ip address...

[firetrucks]

what a terrifyingly realistic hypothetical situation!

[brandon borick]

ur gona kill us all

[ReCreate]

i knew the end of the world was comin

[DrCoolSanta]

Appearently, it already happens without the need of the process. This is a problem in farms, the insects are becoming pesticide proof. It is taught in schools, that this naturally happens, and sooner or later we would have to adopt old methods which involved having pet birds and animals to kill the insects.

[geeklord]

I was gonna say.........

[lil jon168]

EVERY ONE DO NOT DO THIS IT WILL START BREEDING AND CAUSE A MUTANT RACE AND DESTROY MILLIONS OF CROPS

[balisticjoe]

I don't know about you but I am going to try to combine those mushrooms and calcium carbonate and make bug armor any ideas or suggestions.

[NetReaper]

sounds like your using natural selection to let the stronger ones breed and mutate while the weaker ones die

[chickenliver123]

would this work with mutant rats?

[bowow0807]

it would work beacause one time i left out some rat poison pelletsit was completely empty the next daybut no dead rats

[sonic_dan]

its not evolution - its NATURAL SELECTION. it's different. basically, a random mutation could mean that an insect has resistance to the pesticide. therefore, it survives, whereas non-resistant ones die. i.e. survival of the fittest. then, these genes get passed on.

[chickenliver123]

duhhhhhhhhh, thats 6th grade science! good job sonic dan

[Supercoke]

this is almost like the selective breeding lesson in class

[jeffgwapo]

wow!!! ok man i shal spray my self a chemicals so i could be like an instect!

[LasVegas]

You're going to need a heck of a lot more than a gallon of each pesticide. You'll also have to start over a few thousand times when your pesticides kill all of your insects. BTW: This type of experiment would and has proven the evolution theory.

[chickenliver123]

agreeeeeed

[ichipoodle]

Ah, true. But before people go all darwinist on me, i'd like to say a few things. If you study earth's organisms, homo sapiens, or humans, appeared out of nowhere in a land of unknown organisms, like saber toothed cats and bears. There is also the theory of evolution, but how did amphibians know to go on land? perhaps something else "helped" them along? just saying...

[iraqniphobia]

Becoming immune to something doesn't mean you evolved. This is more of an adaptation than anything else.

[lucridious]

uhm, genius, that's what evolution IS

[sonic_dan]

no, its natural selection - its different. its part of evolution as a whole

[firetrucks]

natural selection

[iraqniphobia]

No. What about taking bugs, putting them in a container, and applying chemicals is "Natural?"

[blakdragon19]

the process is called 'natural selection' that doesn't mean its always 'natural' Natural selection is when a population meets evolutionary barrier such as new predators, or new chemicals that can kill them, and only the ones who can flee or withstand these new conditions survive to reproduce. natural selection is the basic process of evolution, but they are different things.

[firetrucks]

Yes it's a man made interference, but by killing all the bugs but those who happen, (if) by random genetic mutation, to be innately resistant to the chemical, this would be an example of natural selection. These genetically superior bugs would go on to breed and the population as a whole will all (or at least mostly) have inhereted this desireable traits. it's still natural selection in exactly the same way as the effect of an infectious disease would be.

[iraqniphobia]

I would equate it more with artificial selection, but I'm not going to argue the point.

[Jaybeester]

this is scary lol. does this work with roaches? so i can dump a whole bunch of them in my stupid neighbors yard