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Hungry caterpillars - Massachusetts being devoured - One species is sated; 3 still ravaging leaves
Boston Globe ^ | June 21, 2005 | Megan Tench

Posted on 06/21/2005 4:12:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: martin_fierro

I guess no one told the moth.


21 posted on 06/21/2005 5:07:05 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Fierce Allegiance

I guess Mass. faired better in the 90s when Bill and Hillary ruled the country.


22 posted on 06/21/2005 5:08:21 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

Sounds pretty creepy!


23 posted on 06/21/2005 5:09:05 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Well, if JFK had been elected President, paraplegics would be walking and these moths would not dare be doing what they are doing. :)


24 posted on 06/21/2005 5:13:04 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - there are countless observable clues that God exists)
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To: DuncanWaring
They wiped out eastern Mass and southern New Hampshire, too

I remember the infestion of gypsy moths in our area of Southern NH in May/June of 1981. It was awful. We have mostly oak trees in our area and the trees were totally denuded by the first of June. Once the oaks were gone, the little buggers started chowing down on everything else. Our screen door was continually covered with hundreds of them. Our house was coated from the foundation half way up to the 2nd floor. They attached themselves to the screens on our windows. You could actually stand out back on our deck and watch them crawling by the thousands from the back lawn towards the house. You could also hear the clicking sounds of hundreds of them feeding in the trees. It was weird. Our son was just a baby and every time I'd take him out, I'd have to take a broom to the screen and walkway and clear a path to the car. Had to do the same when we came home. It was like something out a Hollywood science fiction/horror movie...Plus, it was just plain gross..

25 posted on 06/21/2005 5:13:28 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I know this is a political website, but it never ceases to amaze me how people can mix a story about caterpillars with completely unrelated politics.


26 posted on 06/21/2005 5:14:22 AM PDT by Fierce Allegiance (This is not your granddaddy's America)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

It's a joke.

Retaliation for the twisting and defining the Left does to the right.

Ha Ha......Get it?


27 posted on 06/21/2005 5:21:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Fierce Allegiance

Because humor and sarcasm makes politics fun for some of us. Lots of fun.


28 posted on 06/21/2005 5:23:00 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

hehehe


29 posted on 06/21/2005 5:24:07 AM PDT by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Too bad they dont eat US Senators from MA!


30 posted on 06/21/2005 5:24:12 AM PDT by texson66 ("Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing." - Lord Moulton)
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To: texson66

The voters of Mass need to chew up and spit out their U.S. Senators.


31 posted on 06/21/2005 5:33:55 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Fierce Allegiance
Don't you know that in Massachusetts everything is politics? This is very serious, given a chance the Dims will register every one of those little buggers.
32 posted on 06/21/2005 5:39:05 AM PDT by pepperdog
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; quantim

Yeah, I am one who enjoys the humor as well, but it always seems as though whenever the article involves Mass, my home state, people always equate the entire state with gay marriage, kennedy & kerry. The state may be 60%+ lib, but there are lots of us good blue-state conservaties fighting the beast from within.

Maybe I am just being overly sensitive this morning. I need more coffee.


33 posted on 06/21/2005 5:46:58 AM PDT by Fierce Allegiance (This is not your granddaddy's America)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Can they be taught to munch on liberals?
34 posted on 06/21/2005 5:48:38 AM PDT by verity (Big Dick Durbin is a POS)
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To: cyborg

I am better at taking something political and degrading the thread into something completely unrelated.


35 posted on 06/21/2005 5:50:42 AM PDT by Fierce Allegiance (This is not your granddaddy's America)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

I need coffee too. Since day old 7-11 coffee tastes like Starbucks, I'm going to get some :-)


36 posted on 06/21/2005 5:53:24 AM PDT by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Researchers are still working on ways to control the large number of winter moth caterpillars in the region.

Leave them alone. That is nature at its best. Were it not for man there would be no problem. Anyway, global warming will soon, a few thousand years, make winter moths extinct.

37 posted on 06/21/2005 5:58:36 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: SIDENET

Those look like grasshoppers to me.


38 posted on 06/21/2005 6:00:16 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

'Naw, I share your pain. Same here in MI for the most part. In fact, look at it this way - I'm jealous of you because my gov & senators are amongst the lamest in the nation, but nobody beats up on them on a national level and I (we) never get a chance to pile on!


39 posted on 06/21/2005 6:06:30 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Ha Ha......Get it?

Obviously he/she didn't. I shouldn't complain, I just griped that a thread of a good Thomas Sowell article was hijacked to a beer discussion. However, that is not quite like getting a kick out of the libs suffering from their own policies.

40 posted on 06/21/2005 6:07:43 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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