Heavy metal music (and backward Rush Limbaugh) aimed at beetles

[LearnedHand]

*** SNORT! *** The irony here is too too delicious.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35333189/ns/technology_and_science-science

Beetles don't like heavy metal or Rush Limbaugh, suggests new research, but the sounds that really drive them mad are manipulated versions of their own noises.

Beetles are destroying ponderosa, pinyon, lodgepole pines and other trees important to the ecosystem. The beetles have their place in the ecosystem too, of course, but climate change and human activities have allowed beetles to take over more than they should.

To combat such infestations, scientists thought up the "nastiest, most offensive sounds" they could. Those included recordings of Guns & Roses, Queen, Rush Limbaugh and manipulated versions of the insects' own sounds.

The scientists then played these recordings near beetle-infested trees that they brought into a lab setting. The sounds disrupted tunneling, mating and reproduction for the beetles, making it harder for the insects to eat through the trees.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Well, kool-aid guzzlers luvs me. Sneer." - Rush DraftDodger Limbaugh (R)

"And all the other Republicon Homelander chickenhawks think that my $40-million-a-year corporate bluster sounds real TUFF, you know like a real man and stuff like that. So those pointy-headed, fact-based scientists can just go pound beetle dung. Sneer."

- Rush DraftDodger Limbaugh (R)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K5ls3SJu5Qo/StZYOtOj1QI/AAAAAAAABzM/UTiwumy20Ro/s400/rush+limbaugh+cigar.jpg

[LearnedHand]

2. LOL. Yep. Right up thee with the beetles.