"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"Mary Fisher" wrote after
"Bob Hobden" wrote ...
Why does this make me nervous?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7531221.stm

probably visions of Cane Toads in Oz or the Mongoose in Jamaica or Foxes
in Oz.......
I do hope the research is done properly.

While cleaning my teeth this morning I pondered this question for the two
minutes my sonic brush allows me, for no good reason I could think of
except that I was looking out at the back garden.

I reckon that there are more 'safe' biological controls than there are
undesirable ones.

Over all of history I'm not so sure, although that's probably down to
stupidity and/or desperation coupled with a lack of
understanding/research.

This one *is* being researched.

I'm not worried about JK but if you are no doubt you'd welcome a solution
:-) I'm reminded of people who complain about supermarkets closing down
corner shops but buy their weekly rations from - I can't bring myself to
type the name.

I understood most of the "safe" ones use native insects/fungi/bacteria not
imported ones.

'Understand'?

I was talking to Spouse over dinner tonight - a delicious huss-en-croute
with salads and, of course, runner beans.

Earlier today I Googled for Arctic Tern. There were so many facts and
figures and different in all of the sites that one doesn't know what to
'understand'.
For instance, it was said that the AT can live for as long as 32 years. In
another it was said that no bird has been recorded which lived more than 21
years.

Twenty one years for a little bird which spends little time on land, which
migrates from within 600 miles of the north pole to the Antarctic, is a
great age, I'd have thought. But no doubt there will be some who have read
the first 'authority' I quoted and declare that they 'understood' that the
AT can live for 32 years. I tend to believe the findings of the Norwegian
researchers on Svalbard - but what do I know? Just because I've been there,
seen the birds and the researchers is irrelevant. It really is.

I'm not criticising you, Bob, I'm just confused about the plethora of
'authoritative information' there is about and how many of us can be misled.

[pronounced 'mizzled' in our house :-) ]

Mary