Mycelial Mushrooms as Pesticides

[draqon]

Instead of using pesticides...spending all that money on producing chemicals to kill insects that kill plants...mycelial mushrooms in non-spore form can do it much easier...they are eaten by the insects as food and than they rupture the body of the insect by growing inside out, killing them, and killing every insect there is and thus protecting crops.

Mycelium spores...over India...good thing?

http://www.fungi.com/mycotech/index.html

 

[draqon]

buy the spores: http://www.spores101.com/

plant the spores:

for the kids

 

[spidergoat]

The problem with your idea it is assumes there is someplace where the spores aren't already present. They exist wherever it is possible for them to exist.

 

[Enmos]

And they are very species specific.

Besides.. hands off the insects ! No insects = no people.

Who will pollinate the crops huh ?

 

[draqon]

The problem with your idea it is assumes there is someplace where the spores aren't already present. They exist wherever it is possible for them to exist.

but are they in non-sporous form?

 

[synthesizer-patel]

And they are very species specific.

Besides.. hands off the insects ! No insects = no people.

Who will pollinate the crops huh ?

good point - I was thinking along the lines of a genetically engineered fungus that digests chitin - which shouldn't be too difficult as the cell walls of fungi are chitinous - but that would take out the pollenating insects too no doubt.

Unless you could tie it in to something very species specific or life cycle specific so it could take out the pests before the bees etc arrived it might be a problem.

however if you could get it to work it could be great - a pesticide and a fertiliser in one