Billions of Bodies --

[John Grehan]

Has anyone done an annual estimate for car grill deaths? And
how many "target" insects are killed? Just to help fill in context.

John


At 01:14 PM 11/6/00 -0800, you wrote:
>-- charred bodies of pointlessly murdered insects.  Finally got a copy of
>the zapper paper in Ent News; absolutely shocking and mind-numbing results.
>Based on data from two studies the authors estimate 71 BILLION to 350
>BILLION nontarget insect casualties annually in the USA due to the works of
>'misinformed homeowners' using bug zappers.  I will be in shock for some
>time as I try to digest this frightening info.  If you think there is
>something wrong with this; spread the word.
>
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>Norbert Kondla  P.Biol., RPBio.
>Forest Ecosystem Specialist, Ministry of Environment
>845 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, British Columbia V1N 1H3
>Phone 250-365-8610
>Mailto:Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca
>http://www.env.gov.bc.ca
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