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18-09-2004, 12:29 AM

Larry Blanchard wrote:

In article ,
says...
In article , Larry Blanchard
wrote:

Yes it is. But EV doesn't have a hedge full of yellow jackets and an
allergic wife - I do :-).

Yellowjackets are gardeners' friends, as they eat garden-chomping insects.

snip of long tirade

I knew I'd get at least one anti-pesticide fanatic :-).

I'm more concerned about the antibiotic-resistant bacteria we're
breeding with all the "antibacterial" products on the market today than
I am about killing a few thousand insects - there's no shortage.

The problem is the same. The more pesticide that's used, the more resistant the
insects become. That is the main reason for the development of IPM. The
commonly used pesticides lose their efficacy after a while. They're running out
of pesticides that are toxic enough to kill bugs, but not people.

EV