Abstract
Nature contains many examples of “fake promises” to attract “prey”, e.g., predatory spiders that emit the same sex-attractant-signals as moths to catch them at close range and male spiders that make empty silk-wrapped gifts in order to mate with a female. Nano-pesticides should ideally mimic nature by luring a target and killing it without harming other organisms/species. Here, we present such an approach, called the lunch-box or deadly-goodies approach. The lunch-box consists of three main elements (1) the lure (semio-chemicals anchored on the box), (2) the box (palatable nano-carrier), and (3) the kill (advanced targeted pesticide). To implement this approach, one needs to draw on the vast amount of chemical ecological knowledge available, combine this with recent nanomaterial techniques, and use novel advanced pesticides. Precision nano-pesticides can increase crop protection and food production whilst lowering environmental impacts.Graphical
Highlights
Some of the biggest challenges for modern society, e.g., sustainable increase crop protection, elimination of vector borne diseases, all whilst keeping or promoting biodiversity
To reduce the damage caused by these pests conventional pesticides are widely used
To deal with some of these issues, progress has been made in the area of nano-pesticides, aimed at reducing general spreading of the pesticide and providing timed release, reducing overall emissions [5]
Summary
Some of the biggest challenges for modern society, e.g., sustainable increase crop protection, elimination of vector borne diseases, all whilst keeping or promoting biodiversity. The encapsulated pesticide is released from its nanocarrier upon an environmental trigger, e.g., moisture. The nano lunch-box approach that eliminates the described randomness of encountering the pesticide by combining a nanodelivery system with a semio-chemical, i.e., pheromone, allomone, kairomone or synomone.
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