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To: cripplecreek

MDNR: “Purple loosestrife is an aggresive inavsive species! How do we control it?”

Sierra Club executive: “You can’t poison it so you must use a natural predator. That natural predator is the Japanese Beetle.”

Japaneses beetle: “Wow, the leaves of flowering plants here in Michigan taste Soooooooo much better that that purple thing we are used to.”

Tah, dah!


39 posted on 04/30/2012 9:07:39 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
“Wow, the leaves of flowering plants here in Michigan taste Soooooooo much better that that purple thing we are used to.”

LOL as far as I can tell the beetles won't touch the loosestrife but they sure do like my wisteria.
40 posted on 04/30/2012 9:17:31 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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