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"It’s A Moth, It’s A Drone, It’s ‘Smellicopter’" [1]

"Meet the Pacific Northwest-built machine that uses live insect antennae to sniff out disasters"

"Melanie Anderson pulls aside a small curtain in a dark closet. A dim red bulb is the only light.

“This might take a while because I want to grab male moths,” she says, reaching into the cage behind the curtain.

She pulls out a mottled brown Manduca sexta, sometimes called the Carolina sphinx moth. It’s big — larger than her palm."

Jes Burns reports for Oregon Public Broadcasting June 8, 2022. [2]

Air [3]
Biodiversity [4]
Chemicals [5]
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Source: OPB [2], 06/09/2022
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/it-s-moth-it-s-drone-it-s-smellicopter [2] https://www.opb.org/article/2022/06/08/science-pacific-northwest-washington-moth-scent-smellicopter-technology/ [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/air [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/biodiversity-1 [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/technology [7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [8] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81