[medved]

There are guys who fell into vats of DDT in the 50's and are still walking around without problems of any sort, the whole thing about DDT harming birds turns out to be BS of the worst sort, they had polio and malaria all but wiped of the planet in the 50's and that was apparently too good for them. Somehow or other ordinary people need to learn to make DDT and just spray it around whereever bugs are not wanted. This should be a political issue like school vouchers.

[IGNATIUS]

Agreed on DDT.Pine beetles devastated the Pinyon Pine forests of Southern CO and Northern NM this past year.There is only one weak sister insecticide still available to treat unaffected trees and nothing strong enough to kill the little devils in affected ones(so they won't fly and kill other trees).

I would have paid a thousand bucks last summer for 50 gallons of WWII strength DDT.Could have saved a thousand beautiful century old trees on our place.

Re scorpions--- we have them aplenty in Southeastern Colorado.Never saw them thirty yrs in Denver but warmer here they survive.Are stirred up by excavation.Saw hundreds after digging a basement in caprock.The first year we enjoyed a nightly "scorpion stomp" at dusk--use a blacklight they fluoresce bright yellow one can see for ten feet.Got careless and one finally bit the backside of my thumb.Felt like red hot needles jabbed into the bone---worse by far initially than a yellowjacket bite.But after a few minutes it began to subside and after a half hour there was no redness,swelling or pain.Next year we only saw a few dozen all summer.