caterpillarhunter
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Hi everyone! I'm a new member here, I don't know anything about lasers, and I'm actually just here asking for advice on a very strange and limited subject.
I live in rural Mid-Coast Maine, and in the past few years we've had a horrible infestation of browntail moth caterpillars. They defoliate trees, and their hairs (which they shed copiously) cause poison ivy-like rashes in many people.
The baby caterpillars overwinter in nests of hundreds by wrapping themselves in a dead leaf that's attached to the ends of branches at the tops of trees. So when I'm staring at those dangling dead leaves in December I'm constantly wishing I had Superman's heat ray vision so I could burn them up. Then I realized that I could!
I've been researching a bit, and I'm leaning toward the Sanwu Challenger 2, 1W 635nm. I like this because I think it's strong enough, and the multimode would let me aim on a safe low power mode before I turn it up to burn those suckers. I'd mount it on a tripod for accurate aiming.
My questions are:
Is this the right frequency to use?
Is 1W powerful enough to set that nest on fire? I want to be able to make it burn up from 100 ft away, as some of these trees are 70 feet tall.
Is there another laser of a similar price that you'd recommend instead?
I'm not concerned about setting other things on fire, since I'd only do it in the winter when there's snow on the ground.
I'm also not that concerned about hitting other things up in the air, as we don't really have planes flying overhead, and I'd watch out for birds and squirrels before I turn up the power.
Thanks in advance!
I live in rural Mid-Coast Maine, and in the past few years we've had a horrible infestation of browntail moth caterpillars. They defoliate trees, and their hairs (which they shed copiously) cause poison ivy-like rashes in many people.
The baby caterpillars overwinter in nests of hundreds by wrapping themselves in a dead leaf that's attached to the ends of branches at the tops of trees. So when I'm staring at those dangling dead leaves in December I'm constantly wishing I had Superman's heat ray vision so I could burn them up. Then I realized that I could!
I've been researching a bit, and I'm leaning toward the Sanwu Challenger 2, 1W 635nm. I like this because I think it's strong enough, and the multimode would let me aim on a safe low power mode before I turn it up to burn those suckers. I'd mount it on a tripod for accurate aiming.
My questions are:
Is this the right frequency to use?
Is 1W powerful enough to set that nest on fire? I want to be able to make it burn up from 100 ft away, as some of these trees are 70 feet tall.
Is there another laser of a similar price that you'd recommend instead?
I'm not concerned about setting other things on fire, since I'd only do it in the winter when there's snow on the ground.
I'm also not that concerned about hitting other things up in the air, as we don't really have planes flying overhead, and I'd watch out for birds and squirrels before I turn up the power.
Thanks in advance!