Strangely, they dealt with the Colorado potato beetle, but the idea is workable.

After the Second World War, a viable mechanical method of defense against the Colorado potato beetle finally emerged in Hungary. The lives of agricultural workers are made difficult by numerous pests. Among them is an insect pest that is not native to Hungary, and indeed arrived on our continent under quite peculiar circumstances. The potato beetle is now responsible for significant economic damage in North America, Europe, and South Asia. The potato beetle's homeland may be the northern part of Mexico and the state of New Mexico, but it is also called the Colorado beetle because the species' expansion allegedly started from the state of Colorado. Originally, its food plants may have been drought-tolerant weeds, but it then discovered the potato, and in 1876, it was also discovered in the cargo of ships heading to Europe. According to legend, in the 1950s, Americans intentionally infected the Baltic Sea area with pests from airplanes, but this could only have been Soviet ...