Bark Beetles Hate Rush Limbaugh and Heavy Metal

Aryabhata writes "According to scientists, climate change and human activity have allowed bark beetle populations to soar. They decided to fight the beetles by using the 'nastiest, most offensive sounds' that they could think of. These sounds included recordings of Guns & Roses, Queen, Rush Limbaugh and manipulated versions of the insects' own sounds. The research project titled 'Beetle Mania' has concluded that acoustic stress can disrupt their feeding and even cause the beetles to kill each other."

Comments

Pitiful.

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

They wanted "the nastiest and most offensive" and they picked Guns & Roses and Queen?"

Clearly they fail at knowing anything about actual metal.

So we're more alike then we thought...

[Orga]

So by feeding insects our media we have made them more human (killing themselves etc.)... good find!

Also proven disruptive to Beatles...

[Locke2005]

Yoko Ono.

Hmm

[zippthorne]

Seems like they only tried "rush," "heavy metal," and manipulated beatle noises, and rush and heavy metal came out *below* beatle noises.

They did not try white noise, other radio commentators (Al Franken, perhaps), other genres of music, or even other animals. Also unmentioned is whether they tried silence.

I think a more appropriate title would be "Biologists manage to get paid for amazingly inadequate experiment, while making jabs at completely unrelated fields they really don't know much about."

Re:+5 Flamebait

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder if this article would have made it to the front page of ./ if it hadn't provided an opportunity for certain folks to get a political jab in again at the "evil republicans".

Ah, yes. Republicans. Nature's eternal victims.