[SoWestLep] Mexico expands monarch butterfly habitat

[Anne Kilmer]

Their effect on bees has been well researched, of course. There's money
involved. (Bees being an exotic insect, devastating to native fauna ;-)
) 
I don't imagine NYC is terribly worried about bees, but one wonders
about the other wingers with stingers.
We're supposed to be too sophisticated now for the "Kill 'em all; let
God sort it out" approach. 
May I suggest, however, Michael (and I've been longing to bitch to
somebody about this) that when you explain that the people who die from
this virus are mostly over 65, you do not reassure all of us. (The rest
are probably mere children?)
Some of us *are* over 65 and are not through; some of us are fond of
elderly people, even those who can't find Button 3 I mean 5. No, wait. 
So you might pass the word back.
Anne Kilmer
Palm Beach County




rick wrote:
> 
> Paul Cherubini wrote in message <3A10629C.3D3D at mindspring.com>...
> >
> >Michael, the three mosquito adulticides you named above that were
> >sprayed in New York ( Malathion d-phenothrin and resmethrin)
> >were not even available back in the 1950's so there is no way you could
> have
> >data to back up your claim that these products are DEVASTATING
> >TO BUTTERFLIES.
> 
> Just a comment from a non-expert- My copy of "The Yearbook of Agriculture,
> 1952"
> lists Malathion but not the other two.  It's discussion of aerial spraying
> concentrates on lead arsenate and mostly DDT (which was the wonder
> insecticide of those years).
> 
> Rick
> 
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