Bed Bug Life Cycle

When fire became portable, Man else discovered that smoke caused bees to become more amenable to robbing.

Some time later, a more settled tribe found that they could house bees in baskets or pots, which saved them the trouble of climbing trees to get the honey, and the craft of beekeeping was born. Pots, baskets and logs prolonged in use for many centuries, and while proficient beekeepers would have understood a good deal of the behaviour of their charges, the inner secrets of the hive remained ended from observers until the end of the 18th century, when a blind Swiss by the name of François Huber found them out through the medium of his careful - and sighted - servant, Burnens. Huber's New Observations on the Natural History of Bees remains a first-rate to this day.

Some 30 years later, Jan Dzieraon developed Huber's experimental hive additional to originate the first truly practical, movable-frame beehive, and shortly afterwards in 1852, Rev. Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth publicized and patented his own version. Such was his talent for publicity and marketing that the 'Langstroth' became and remains the suitable hive in the Usa and the model upon which most other variants are based.

However, this type of hive is costly to buy, very difficult for amateur woodworkers to build - due to the precise dimensions and many small parts needed for frames - requires constant maintenance, causes great disturbance to the lives of bees, and is heavy and cumbersome in use. Many women, especially, have been put off beekeeping by the weight-lifting needed to harvest honey from a Langstroth-type hive, and hernias are commonplace among commercial beekeepers.

In Nepal, honey-hunting is still practised by men descending cliffs on ropes and using long poles to dislodge chunks of comb. Elsewhere, bees are kept in skeps, baskets, pots, cavities in walls and other packaging devised from local materials and - we can deduce from their longevity - more-or-less convenient both for bees and for their keepers. In Africa, probably the original home of the honeybee, the top bar hive was developed as an 'intermediate technology' solution, capable of being constructed using local skills and materials and being, in essence, a beekeeper-friendly hollow log, having the advantages of movable combs but without the need for machine-made parts.

Whatever the room we offer them, our meetings with bees have always been a process of negotiation, albeit somewhat one-sided. We can safe ourselves from them, but they ultimately have no security from us. The encroachment of chemical agriculture, deforestation and urbanization have reduced their natural habitat, while toxic cocktails of insecticides have poisoned their flowers.

The honeybee has come to be seen as the 'canary in the coal mine' of our civilization and she is showing early warning signs of her imminent demise, to which we must pay urgent attention.

Our challenge now is to re-negotiate our association with bees: we must learn to safe and raise them, rather than simply exploit them, and we need to learn to listen to what they need from us. The process of discovering how we can most effectively do that is the project that myself and others have set ourselves, and we hope that many more will join us and carry this work forward.

We reply the paradox possible in the phrase 'natural beekeeping': as soon as we consider 'keeping' bees, we begin to stray from what is truly 'natural'. In nature, only bees keep bees.

To be carefully 'natural', our beekeeping practice must take into account:

• the natural impulses and behaviour of bees, including - foraging, swarming, storing food and defending their nest
• how hive develop affects bees
• the suitability of materials used in hive construction, including considerations of sustainability
• the nature and frequency of our interventions
• the impact of a localized increase in honeybee people on other species of pollinators
• the balance between honey harvesting and the bees' own needs
• the nature of any added inputs - medications, feeding

We are engaged in a process of working towards the ultimately unattainable plan of wholly 'natural' beekeeping, while acknowledging that the bees will go their own way regardless of our wishes. Our association with them is that of facilitator or minder rather than 'keeper'. We could say that the role of the natural beekeeper is to enable our bees to attain the fullest possible expression of their bee-ness while in our care.

Our allembracing goal in natural beekeeping is to accomplish a state of sustainability: balancing inputs and outputs such that our activities improve rather than damage the condition of our bees, other species and the planet.

To be truly sustainable, a theory must be as close to carbon-neutral as it can be, requiring no artificial inputs and having no detrimental impact on the natural environment. So if we are to continue to have a association with honeybees, we have to consider what impact current beekeeping practices have and how our 'natural' arrival seeks to improve on this state of affairs.

A typical commercial beekeeping carrying out is a real vigor hog. Lumber - which may or may not come from sustainable sources - is sliced and milled by powered machinery prior to assembly into hive boxes, which are movable by road, sea or rail to be additional distributed by road to their apiary sites. Regular visits by beekeepers require oil-derived fuel, and more is needed to fire the boilers to heat the vital quantities of water needed for sterilizing woodwork and washing down de-cappers, extractors, tanks and floors. More power is needed to retrieve the crop, to passage it and to mix and distribute the sugar syrup needed for the bees' survival following the discharge of their stores. Honey must then be filtered, bottled and distributed to wholesalers and thence to retail outlets. Meanwhile, beeswax is recovered by means of steam or boiling water, cleaned and filtered and sent off to be re-melted and turned into sheets of foundation, which are then sold back to the beekeepers for insertion into frames for next season.

Migratory beekeepers in the Usa truck hives by the thousands clear over the country for the almond pollination, while in the Uk this type of action is nowadays largely restricted to taking hives up to the moors in August for the heather crop, and some orchard pollination work.

Due to what might be called the Langstroth hegemony, this whole scenario is also enacted in exiguous by amateur beekeepers, who largely mimic the activities of their commercial brethren. They may only have a few hives at the lowest of their gardens, but in most cases they have not carefully any alternative to the expensive, energy-hungry tool available from the slick catalogues of the beekeepers' suppliers.

We know that bees need nothing much more than a dry, ventilated cavity in which to build their nest. Instead, 'modern' beekeepers insist on supplying them with a box full of wooden frames, in which are mounted sheets of wax, helpfully imprinted with oversized 'worker-bee' hexagonal cell bases. A newly-hived swarm of bees must be surprised for real to find so much done for them: ready-made comb bases hung in neat rows, with spaces all around them for passage - what a boon for a busy colony!

But what may at first sight appear to be a great convenience, also has some vital drawbacks. All these imprinted cells are the same size, yet whatever who has observed natural comb knows that cell sizes vary considerably, and not just between workers and drones: worker cells themselves vary in diameter agreeing to rules only bees are aware of. All those dead-straight frames may look neat, but bees don't build dead-straight comb - they like a gentle curve here and there. And if you watch bees building natural comb in an unrestricted space, they hang in chains, legs linked, as if laying out the dimensions of the comb in space as they work above their own heads - something they cannot do on foundation.

So a good deal of so-called 'modern' beekeeping - in fact, virtually unchanged since the mid-19th century - is unsustainable from our point of view, as well as being a nuisance to bees. In terms of honey yield, it is clearly an revising on logs and skeps, but in terms of bee condition and vigor efficiency, it has turned out to be a disaster.

The job of the natural beekeeper is to find ways of interacting with bees that are truly sustainable, both for the bees themselves and for the planet.

In The Barefoot Beekeeper, I proposed the following three, simple theory for the 'natural' beekeeper to consider:

1. Interference in the natural lives of the bees is kept to a minimum.
2. Nothing is put into the hive that is known to be, or likely to be harmful whether to the bees, to us or to the wider environment and nothing is taken out that the bees cannot afford to lose.
3. The bees know what they are doing: our job is to listen to them and furnish the optimum conditions for their well-being, both inside and outside the hive.

These theory seem to me to form a solid foundation for our mental about how we arrival bees and beekeeping. As soon as we step beyond those basic theory and attempt additional to define the parameters, we find ourselves in danger of starting to originate a 'book of rules'. And it doesn't take much looking around the world today to see how divisive and destructive other 'books of rules' have been.

'Natural', 'balanced' or 'sustainable' beekeeping - whatever name we give it - is a process, not a destination. We have to remain flexible and always be on the lookout for ways to improve our techniques, so all things in this book is offered in this spirit: indications of what seems to work, always with the possibility that there are even great ways yet to be discovered, or - more likely - re-discovered, as there is for real nothing new in beekeeping.

Historically, we began our association with bees when somebody discovered that the taste of honey was worth the pain it cost to harvest. We became honey-hunters, and while there were few of us and many of them, this was sustainable.

When somebody discovered that it was possible to offer shelter to honeybees while they made their honey, and then kill them off to raid their stores, we became bee keepers, and while there were few bee keepers and many honeybees, that too was sustainable.

Then Man invented a way to house bees that did not require them to be killed, but instead allowed people to administrate and operate them to some extent, arranging things so as to trick them into producing more honey for their masters than for themselves, and we became bee farmers. And that was sustainable for a while because there were still many of them and although there were also many of us, we could manipulate their pregnancy so as to make more of them as we needed.

Now it has become clear that we have gone too far, for bees have begun to suffer from diseases that were virtually unknown in the old days, and they have to be given medicines in order to keep them alive. And because a whole business has grown up around the farming of these bees, and there is a lot of money at stake, beekeepers have been slow to change their ways and many could not do so for fear of bankruptcy, and so the condition of the honeybees has become worse and they are subject to parasites and viruses that never troubled them in the past.

Meanwhile, we forgot how to grow food in the way that we once had done because we were no longer inclined to labour in the fields, and instead devised clever ways to make the soil retain more crops. We poured fertilizers onto our fields and killed off inconvenient creatures with 'pesticides' - defining a whole class of living organisms as our enemies and therefore dispensable. This was never sustainable, and never can be.

And that is where we find ourselves today, and this is the problem we face: bees have become weakened through exploitation and a toxic agricultural system, allied to the impossible expectation of continuous economic growth.

As 'natural beekeepers', our most pressing work is to restore bees to their original, wholesome state. We think of ourselves as 'keepers' in the sense of 'nurturing and supporting' rather than 'enslaving'. We must seek to safe and conserve the honeybee by working within their natural capacity, not permanently urging them towards ever greater production. We must challenge the whole agricultural and economic theory that has caused us to arrive at this point, because without change at that level, the future for both us and the bees is bleak.

We can make a start by re-establishing more natural, non-violent ways of working with bees: neither we nor they have any need of routine or preventative 'treatments' with artificial antibiotics, fungicides or miticides. We don't need to operate 'honey factories' - we can article ourselves with providing room for bees in return for whatever they can afford to give us. In some years, this may be nothing at all, while in others there may be an abundant harvest.

Such is nature: bees depend on honey for their survival; we do not.

If the price of returning bees to a state of natural, robust condition is a exiguous less honey on our toast, is it not a worthwhile sacrifice?

As many of you know, New York, as well as many other large cities worldwide, has come to be the home to an ample estimate of Pigeons. Yes I am talking about the pigeons that rest and nest on your windowsills, balconies, fire escapes, and park benches everyday! Have you ever taken a step back to wonder why these birds seem to thrive in your neighborhood? I mean you do live in New York City, why would such a huge population of birds thrive in an overcrowded, polluted, concrete jungle?

Well.. The traditional speculate behind this infestation (that many population are comfortable with and encourage) is likely the absence of the Pigeon's natural predators. I mean how often do you see a peregrine falcon swooping down to the curb of a New York City street? Large cities supply Pigeons with an abundance of food and security that is not only maintaining their lifespan but also production it easier for them to mate more often. For many years pest control clubs have been responding to complaints about pigeons with the recommendation of avian poisons. Some of the avian poisons, however, are nonselective in nature, meaning that non-target species may unfortunately have to take their last breath after ingesting or feeding on a bird that has ingested these poisons. For this very reason, in August of 2000 the Nyc Governor signed a bill banning the use of plump avian poisons. In coordination with the ban on pigeon control straight through the use of various avian poisons, pigeons are breeding at an exorbitant rate; resulting in an ever-growing pigeon population wreaking havoc on uninformed city-dwellers.

Ok, So by now you're probably wondering what all of this pigeon talk has to do with bugs right? Well, here goes.

You see, when it comes to the pigeon qoute in Nyc, most population are worried about the repulsive droppings they leave behind on your homes, cars, and sidewalks.. Oh yeah! Don't forget your clothes and hair, on a bad day. Some population may even worry about more serious things such as condition hazards and the spread of disease. But the one thing most population have not determined is the pests of our pests. That's right! Bird Mites... Similar to bed bugs, bird mites are a parasite, meaning that they feed on the blood of living organisms. Although the host that bird mites prefer is birds, they are also attracted to mammals such as humans... Yes... You! These itty bitty creatures will often bite humans when their natural food source (birds) is absent. Similar to their darling host, bird mites reproduce at a rapid pace, multiplying into thousands without warning.

Lucky for you, I am here to notify the uninformed.

There are many separate types of bird mites, canary lung mites, feather mites, grey mites, and a major menace called the red mite. Red mites are commonly as small as 1mm in distance and are white or clear in color. Any way when they feed they will regularly turn a dark red or brown. Bird mites are often nocturnal and feed on their hosts at night. These nearly puny creatures, averaging between.7 and 1 mm in length, are oftentimes overlooked or mistaken for bed bugs (Reference: 2). Unless they are moving, it is exceptionally difficult to see bird mites. Symptoms of bird mites consist of pin-size bites, itching, small red bumps, and a crawling sensation on the skin (Reference: 1). One way to check your live-in bird cage is to place a sheet over the about area, if there are small specks or stains when you take off the sheet then you may have something to worry about.

Bird mites have five stages in their life cycle: egg, larvae, protonymph, deutonymph and adult. The larvae can be identified by having three pair of legs, while the nymphs and adults have four pair (Reference: 2).

Now that you have an idea what to look for, let's back track a puny bit. Remember the ample pigeon population that we spoke about just a puny while ago? Well we all know that the millions of pigeons that are dwelling on your windowsills and underneath your air conditioners may be a pester you; but what you assuredly need to think is that those same pigeons may have puny pests of their own. Allowing pigeons to nest near windows and air conditioners increases the likelihood of bringing bird mites into your home, turning their pest qoute into your pest problem!

Some guidance I would offer in helping keep your home and house bird mite free would be to close all openings and holes that are large enough for birds to enter attics and install hardware cloth on porches and outside surroundings to preclude roosting. Outdoor birds, such as pigeons, should be discouraged from nesting in or near buildings. Lastly, I very suggest that residents disrupt nest-building efforts near home entrances and windows.

So I am sure many of you are thinking, "well I can't have birdmites" or "that's fine I'll just stay away from the pigeons from now on". If it were that simple, I guess this report in its essence would be meaningless. Bird mite infestations are difficult to eradicate and often wish the aid of a knowledgeable and experienced pest control company.

Frontline Plus for Dogs and Puppies is one of the most sufficient medications to keep your dog-young or old-safe from fleas and other pests. This topical medication kills adult fleas as well as their eggs and larvae within twenty-four hours of application. Ticks, too, will fall before the suited ingredients in Frontline Plus. The effects last for thirty days, even if your dog likes to swim or take quarterly baths. It's easy to apply, too.

You simply squeeze the rehabilitation onto your pet's skin in the middle of her shoulder blades, and she's good to go...and fleas, ticks, and lice are as good as gone.Revolution for Cats is an sufficient flea killer, too. It kills adult fleas and stops flea eggs from hatching. This safe monthly topical medication also prevents and controls heartworm disease and ear mite infestations as well as roundworm and hookworm infections. Non-greasy and quick-drying, it is a straightforward stock to use and provides long continuing relief to your cat.

You can fight fleas with an internal control, too. Agenda Flavor Tabs for Dogs can be used on adult dogs and puppies as young as four weeks, to preclude and control fleas. It works by preventing flea eggs from developing. It won't kill adult fleas, so you might need to use an added stock to take care of infestations of adult fleas. Capstar Tablets is one option to use with Agenda Flavor Tabs. Captstar Tablets kill adult fleas, plus they preclude eggs from hatching. Agenda makes Flavor Tabs for Cats  too, and Capstar has formulated tablets for felines as well.

If you're not comfortable applying a topical medication to your dog's skin or giving him an oral flea preventative, you might think the PowerBand Flea and Tick Collar for Dogs. This collar offers total security for your pet straight through all stages of the flea life cycle. Adult and young fleas will die swiftly as will flea eggs, and the effects last for up to five months. This collar also kills ticks for the same duration of time. It provides quick relief for your beloved pet and you can use it with microscopic fear of side effects.

Shampoos offer immediate and soothing relief to pets. Adams Flea and Tick Shampoo kills fleas, ticks and lice on dogs and cats. It has the added benefit of being a coat remedial and a deodorant and flea repellant. It can be used on puppies and kittens, too. Bathing your pet every two weeks with this shampoo will keep him clean, sweet smelling and flea-free!

Ecto-Soothe 3X Shampoo contains oatmeal to soothe the skin and synergized pyrethrins to kill fleas. It can be used on dogs, cats, puppies and kittens that are at least twelve weeks old. You'll love the way your pet's fur feels and smells after shampooing him with this product, and he will feel much better, too.Of course, just killing fleas on your pet doesn't solve the problem completely.

You'll need to treat the house and yard as well. One can of Siphotrol Plus Fogger kills fleas in an whole room and then prevents eggs from developing for thirty weeks. That's a lot of killing power and an wide control duration for your pets as well as your family members. Plus it's straightforward to use and the odor dissipates quickly, leaving your home fresh smelling and flea free.Siphotrol also offers their X-Tend Handheld Yard and Patio Fogger to kill not only fleas exterior your home, but ticks and mosquitoes, too.

Treating up to ten thousand square feet of yard and patio, it also helps control ants, roaches, spiders, wasps and other pests. Your pet-and your whole family-will be grateful when you treat your exterior living spaces with this suited product. You'll all be able to spend more time in your outdoor living spaces without fear of attracting pesky bugs.If you want to spot treat around your home's interior, think using Mycodex Plus Environment Aerosol Household Spray. This stock will kill adult fleas, larvae and eggs, plus it will control re-infestation for more than two hundred days.

Use it to kill pests on your pet's bedding or on your upholstery and furniture. It also helps control ticks, roaches, ants, lice, silverfish, spiders and other insects. One aerosol can will cover up to five hundred square feet, giving you fullness of bug killing action. With this product, your home will be comfortable for everyone-pets and humans alike.The ease and good health of your pets is a top priority for any loving master or owner. Use these helpful tips to keep your furry friends comfortable and free of fleas forever!

How do you know if you have a bed bug problem?

Inspect for bed bugs, fecal stains and egg cases in the folds, cracks and crevices of mattresses, beds, wallpaper, carpeting, couches and even in clothing. Even if you find only a few evidences, it is probable that you have a much bigger problem. Bed bugs are good at hiding in the tiniest spaces, even beneath baseboards and inside electrical outlets.

The accepted coming to treating for bed bug infestation has been straight through the use of chemicals. However, since Ddt (the miracle pesticide) was banned back in 1972, bed bugs have been on the increase. Until then, the pests were nearly eradicated in the United States. Other chemicals have been only gradually thriving in controlling them. Now, overuse of chemical pesticides could be contributing to the problem by creating extremely defiant populations, causing them to grow and making some pesticides virtually useless.

One thing is clear - use of pesticides is not a sustainable coming to the infestation of bed bugs. So what's the best solution?

Heat. Special thermal heat rehabilitation systems have been designed to fully eradicate bed bugs, ticks, mites, spiders and other pests without the use of chemicals. Thermal heat remediation gets to the heart of the problem safely and economically by getting rid of infestations in only a short period of time, allowing habitancy to move back into the space quickly.

So how does heat remediation work?

Specially designed galvanic heaters are brought into the actual room space and turned on. Heat is then allowed to circulate throughout the targeted room area for four to six hours at a lethal temperature range of between 130º and 150ºF. A Special timer is placed surface the room with which to monitor the temperature and turn the heaters off following the eradication cycle.

Not only will heat kill the live bed bugs, but also their larvae. Therefore, a thermal heat explication kills every life stage from egg to adult.

Will any basic heaters work?

No.

Most basic galvanic heaters are designed for relieve heating only with limit switches and other security devices built in, which will not allow the heaters to run at high temperature. Plus, small personal space heaters are not safe to be left unattended.

By inequity a Special heat rehabilitation ideas consists of a 240V base heating unit, plus additional satellite heaters, designed to operate safely at high temperatures. Special timers and controllers are also used to regulate and bring room temperatures up to the optimum kill level.

Thermal area rehabilitation heaters are usually purchased by pest operate clubs who compact with homeowners and enterprise habitancy locally. However, they can also be purchased and operated by hotel/motel owners, apartment owners, hospitals and government agencies.

Aside from killing insects, thermal heat rehabilitation eradicates spiders, ticks, mites and a host of other insects. Cockroaches may be the only exception. Water remediation is an additional one very beloved use of a thermal heat rehabilitation system.

Bed bug bites vs. Flea bites

While other insect bites will immediately cause itchy bumps and rashes, bites from bed bugs may itch nine days after. They may appear sooner in some citizen but there will all the time be a lag time. Each bite from these pests will also decide their life cycle. While nymphs are responsible for small bites, an adult bug is regularly the main culprit behind larger bites. The lag time may also fool you into reasoning that the bumps and rashes appeared out of nowhere, which is the imagine why most citizen mistake bedbug bites as symptoms of skin allergy.

To find out if a bedbug infestation is really your problem, you have to differentiate them from other insect bites. Coarse household pests such as fleas may look the bite of bedbugs in some way. This can be consuming and misleading to the untrained eye. No one can really blame you for committing this mistake because both pests may produce the same symptoms such as itchy rashes and welts. If you found three bites in a row, this is a good indication that bedbugs have been sneaking up on you while you are asleep.

Treating bed bug bites

The inconvenience caused by these nasty pests will keep you searching for an sufficient way to cure bedbug bites. Some over-the-counter medications will be enough, but you may need something stronger if your case turns out to be severe. Even though the swelling caused by the bites may subside and heal after a week or two, their reddish appearance will right on embarrass you. You can speed up the curative process by using skin creams that contain hydrocortisone or oral histamines such as diphenhydramine. If you advanced a skin infection due to the bites, your doctor may also prescription antibiotics.

No one wants to contact the inconvenience caused by these pesky miniature creatures. However, they are hard to eradicate because they can hide themselves really well and they can survive after a year of not feeding on blood. But still, it is leading to get rid of them as soon as inherent because they tend to spread and breed very quickly. Either you are planning to kill them on your own or hire a pest control firm to do all the hard work for you, protecting yourself from bed bug bites should all the time be your priority.

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By the way compliments to Geoffrey Barrows for his studies and comprehension and new award. Thus creating the fuzzy logic and sets of rules to rule what is an obstacle and what is someone else curious object. If you read one of Tom Clancy's books where these itsybitsy dragon flies with tiny explosives sit in the grass of the enemies runway and wait for an aircraft to take off and fly in a swarm and in front of it and allow themselves to get sucked into the jet engines where on impact with the fan blades explode, taking out the engines thus the aircraft is taken out with a swarm of micro-air-vehicles which seem a bunch of less-than-palm-size insects. Insects have curious characteristics. Such small units may be nearly impossible to shoot down or stop once they are set o their mission.

Using sound maybe simpler than using optic network flow sensors, but the visual flow sensors can deal with more things. For instance a possible mid air collision with a car, person, truck which is also moving. Also a devise, Uav, Mav created to take out someone else Mav, similar to a bat, which can eat 1000 bugs an hour. By lining them up and devouring them as it flies. An anti Mav, Mav, you see? The impending Mav wars will be interesting. For us to use the advantages given to us by evolution and to study the systems, hunting techniques, flows and cycles of organic devices. There are many things going on in species at all times and many dissimilar straightforward systems running simultaneously that are interacting. If you want to get technical you could say the wind, weather, food supply, symbiotic relationships all going on at once in the world of an insect or in the world of a human for that matter. Or a computer working on a decision matrix agenda whose job it is to take into account all these things and use rules to rule what to do.

We must take a seat and truly think and study these things in depth. A good book to get you in the allowable mind set to study these systems is Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind Of Science." Start Small and end Big coming to the world, where simplicity and complexity are the same. Although it might not be truly spoton in all accounts and often takes liberties of explaining things from a particular theory agenda point of view it will support you in learning the Flows of all things we see and observe.

Optical Flow systems maybe somewhat more complicated and difficult to use than, sonar or sound, they may also add added weight and therefore growth size and you could lose your benefit in that case depending on your mission. The theorize I bring up these matters of how to fool a Mav or defeat one, or kill it, so to speak, since it will be behaving more similarly to an organic motor than a straightforward devise. Well because the academia crowd is sharing facts with other countries. These Mavs after all are a composition of many sciences, many of which are life based, which are not very incommunicable in that anything can sit out side and watch a Bee fly in a zigzag pattern like you have to do when you taxi a tail dragger so you can see where you are going and what is advent up. Now then is an visual sensor truly the best bet? Some of the best and brightest agree that it is. Any way Bats do not crash into things and they use sonar, or do they truly use both optic flow sensors (it's brain and eyes) with the benefit of sonar too? Well at least we know they always turn left when they exit a cave? Interesting.

It appears that the most industrialized studies are based on the Bee for the Mav, which makes a lot of sense. Now then we were talking about originally fooling the optic flow sensors with a spinning mobile like you put above the bed or crib for a small child. When you take dissimilar shapes and spin them, they will screw up the visual flow sensors, because on itsybitsy it will appear they are far away and then the silhouette turns to full size and shape which in the mind of the optic flow sensor appears to be an object advent up fast. Then it becomes small like a B-2 Stealth advent at you, that you cannot see, then it becomes big again when it turns, huge in the mind of the optic flow sensor, causing a reaction of quick turn in trajectory. Then the Mav changes direction and someone else piece on the mobile turns side ways and again cause the unit to turn directions. So then think of the question when you put a few of these things in the path of a Mav or near a window to protect the Head of State of a neighboring ally. Your opponent cannot charge the human being inside because the Mav will turn back, meanwhile assume that other Mavs or objects are curious fast towards it every time it gets close. Thus you have fooled the Mav.

If this works it maybe a good way to keep mosquitoes away from your window without a screen. Although their processing of data even with a tiny brain is much faster than that of the Mav with the multi-optic flow sensor network? Calculations per second are the issue and the speed of flight. Confusing the optic flow sensors on a Mav might be the way to go. Also the variation between sonar or sound and optic flow networked sensors on the same Mav may take into notice these issues and the variation of the combining of data may in fact alleviate the problem. Also leaves falling from trees while flying in the canopy of trees along a road might be difficult since there are many of them and they flip around while they fall, especially in Fall, which is upon us. So this is not time to take a trip with any Mav in autumn. determined things fool insects of determined types, while others have no question working around those challenges. So to will dissimilar Mavs depending on how the networked sensors work, what they mimic and what their strategy is.

It would be safe to say that some dissimilar ideas might be smart for Mav swarms since there is security in numbers and dissimilar missions for each, possibly a mobile to confuse could be attacked by the half backs of the swarm, while the full backs and strikers stay in a retention pattern. If the decoy or optic flow network devise to confuse such as a mobile is rendered impotent then the whole swarm advances. This would be similar to a strategy of a hive, or Ants or other insects, which is somewhat based on net-centric warfare, which Mavs might play a crucial role in the next two decades? .

Another issue is if swarms of organic species are so good at what they do, why try to re-invent them, just hire them as your mercenary army? Isn't that what Machiavelli said although they may not fight as hard as a citizen, there is security in numbers as the missions will be relatively simple. As a matter of fact how do we know that the enemy may unleash a situation on us, using and organic delivery theory of vector, will our Mavs be able to stay on patrol or are we best off hiring the Bats to do our dirty work and get a free dinner? And if the enemy does use organic material should we use technology of a dissimilar sort? This would keep them away and could confuse the enemies Mavs if they use sound to navigate. All options are ready and all such options should be pursued since the enemy is also pursuing options as well as current allies who may someday be foes. In any case there is much work to be done to make smaller Mavs that work and can be powered for long periods for missions, which cover many miles. Designing ways to fool optic flow network sensors will be easier than designing ways to make them work, so we ought to be aware of this as we continue to form out how we can use them to our tactical advantage.