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To: rellimpank

This looks like a job for DDT. It would get the beetles and the stop the incoming plague of Malaria and Dengue Fever that is forthcoming.


20 posted on 01/14/2008 10:28:47 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug

—nope—there is something like 100 million acres that would have to be done , tree by tree-—largely , Ma Nature (or Gaia) are gonna take care of this—


26 posted on 01/14/2008 10:35:51 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: vetvetdoug
"This looks like a job for DDT. It would get the beetles and the stop the incoming plague of Malaria and Dengue Fever that is forthcoming."

Won't work. Once the beetles are in the tree they can't be killed. They have to be killed in the pupae stage when they move to healthy trees. Tree bands work best, but it's impossible to band an forrest. The next best think is harvesting the trees and stopping the spread by creating a buffer zone wider than they are able to migrate.

35 posted on 01/14/2008 10:44:14 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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