It doesn’t take a blithering idiot to know that DDT will stop this. We should spray it and tell the enviromentalists to go to hell.
Several barrels were found rusting or on their sides leaking DDT concentrate into the soil. Apparently, this was happening all over Colorado.
So...that*s when the environmentalists got involved and succeeded in getting it banned.
There was a fear that it would leach into the water table.
Until last year I had lived on Cape Cod for 12 years (big mistake, lovely place except for the people), and in 1999 I was told the beetle mentioned here would destroy all the pine trees on the Cape within 3 years. For any of you who have never been there, if it were not for pine trees there would be no trees on the Cape at all.
When I escaped last year there as many if not more trees then 1999. Pine trees grow like weeds and it seems as if every cone they drop turns into another 10-15 new trees.
Or not. Why should I care if this century's forrest dies. Forrests are always changing.