Flamethrower drone incinerates wasp nests in China

A drone has been converted into a flying flamethrower in central China in a fiery campaign to eradicate more than 100 wasp nests.

Blue Sky Rescue, a volunteer team that conducts search and rescue and other emergency work, comprise teamed up with villagers in Zhong county shut to the metropolis of Chongqing.

They raised 80,000 yuan ($12,200) to take hang of a drone and equip it with a gasoline tank and an arm-length nozzle.

Movies launched by Blue Sky expose a most up-to-date mission by the six-arm drone. It hovers above a hive as huge as a suitcase sooner than swooping down. The drone operator flips the ignition switch, and the drone spits bursts of fireplace onto the hive.

“The burning ashes of the wasp’s nest step by step peeled off and fell, and the surrounding residents applauded and praised the rescue team,” said a piece of writing on a neighborhood news app bustle by narrate-owned Chongqing TV.

The article quotes a resident thanking Blue Sky for helping the village: “Now we manufacture no longer desire to distress about being stung by a wasp.”

Blue Sky said it has destroyed 11 hives to this level. There are more than 100 to head.

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