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[Anne Kilmer]

Ed Rooney wrote:
> >> semjase at aol.com (Semjase) wrote:
> >
> > > >Well conducted research has shown that out of _fifty_six attempts _none_
> > > >has succeded in the long term.
> > >
> > > This is an interesting statement which if true would argue for lightening
> > > restrictions on the importation of live exotic lepidoptera.
> > >
> > > S.
> >
> >       Really?  Familiar with the sad tale of the Gypsy moth?
> 
> And the cabbage white? (Pieris rapae.)
> Fact is that if you don't want it, it thrives; if you long to cherish
> it, it perishes.
> 
> If we all have free range to diddle with the environment, I'm going to
> establish those nice banana-eating morphos in my garden, and put
> capybaras and tapirs in the lake along my property. I'm sure they'd
> stick around; we have plenty of water hyacinth (little islands of
> beauty) and Brazilian pepper (such a good hedge plant) for them to eat.
> ;)
> Aren't there some butterflies that eat palms? And some that eat citrus,
> besides the giant swallowtail? Gee, it's a free country, I think we
> should all just do whatever we want.
> Someone has let nutrias loose in South Florida; maybe we need some of
> those big South American otters to control them.
> My friends, the Master Gardeners, who have just been to Australia, have
> brought back seeds. I wonder what'll happen because of them. Lots of
> great plants in Australia. Bugs too, I'll bet.
> I'm going back in the padded room and pound my head some more. It feels
> so good when I stop.
> Anne kilmer
> South Florida