[SoWestLep] Mexico expands monarch butterfly habitat

[Patrick Foley]

Paul,

You seriously want to claim that aerial spraying kills only the target species?
Let's not argue about the obvious.

Patrick

Paul Cherubini wrote:

> Pat Foley wrote:
>
> > It is simply not true that ecologists are fudging their data, lying
> > about their conclusions or intentionally misleading the public.
>
> Pat, with regard to misleading the public, how do you feel about
> the following NABA article about the impact of mosquito
> spraying over New York City?
> http://www.naba.org/wnvirus.html. In that article the
> professor -medical doctor author states:
>
> "The seductiveness of aerial pesticide spraying, devastating to butterflies
> and other non-target species, and frightening and potentially harmful to
> many humans, should be the last, not the first, approach to controlling
> disease spread."
>
> The problem here is that I don't believe the Professor can bring any
> scientific references to the table to back up the claim mosquito spraying
> is typically "devastating to butterflies and other non-target species".
> If no scientific evidence is available to back up that claim, then
> it seems to me the Professor IS misleading the public.
>
> Paul Cherubini
>
>
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