Thread  RSS Digital imagery useful for pyrethrum analysis



# 9444 9 years ago on Mon, Jan 11 2016 at 5:03 pm

Hey, all. How is it going? I saw this today. Thought it might be worth sharing.

Pyrethrum is a perennial, herbaceous plant grown mainly for the production of pyrethrins. Pyrethrins have insecticidal properties and are commonly used in natural and organic products as a pest control agent. Determining pyrethrin yield, which is measured by flower biomass and pyrethrin ester content of the biomass, has traditionally been accomplished by manually harvesting and counting pyrethrum flowers. These methods are quite labor-intensive, can be destructive to the sampled area, and may cause damage to surrounding crops.

Article: user link on phys.org

Certainly noteworthy, I guess.

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# 9447 9 years ago on Mon, Jan 11 2016 at 5:16 pm

This is so riveting that I had to take horse tranquilizers just to calm down.

Interesting.

# 9448 9 years ago on Mon, Jan 11 2016 at 5:18 pm

How nice yay

I'm going to be, actually. Whenever I yield, bad things happen.

That's interesting.

EyeConduit, you are about ten hours difference from me.

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly it is completely honest."

-- Isaac Asimov

# 9968 9 years ago on Tue, Jan 12 2016 at 4:07 am

On Monday, January 11th, 2016 at 10:16 pm, EyeConduit said:

This is so riveting that I had to take horse tranquilizers just to calm down.

Certainly not what you'd consider light reading. That's for sure.

ugh, it's too late to even attempt to decipher this. annoyed

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

# 9973 9 years ago on Tue, Jan 12 2016 at 12:30 pm

Hmmm. I'm not sure I'd bother.

It seems the news bots aren't yet doing a good job selecting interesting, appropriate stories. I had to delete some political articles out of the "Current Events" section several times.

73's, KD8FUD

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