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Crisis Averted

Morgan Maher

To eradicate the light brown apple moth in California, known to damage apple, grape, orange and pear crops, the state had planned to continue aerial spraying of pesticides every 30-90 days, for 9 months of every year, for at least 3-5 years.

Now, those plans have been halted, environmental reviews will be taking place and no spraying can begin until the reviews finish next year.

Department of Food and Agriculture Director A.G. Kawamura said "We want to move away from the tools of the past ... Our focus right now is: Let's all work together to eradicate this pest."

While some spraying will proceed over agricultural or undeveloped areas, and some questionable uses of insecticides on the ground will continue, there are plans to engage more natural methods.

The release of sterile male moths to thwart the moth's efforts to reproduce has been called a "tool of the future". Tiny stingerless wasps, which would destroy moth larvae, are also being considered.

Further information and video here.

Creative Commons Image: "Welcome to the SF Spray Area" by  Chance Gardener on Flickr.

6-26-08

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a sane approch who'd uh thunk?

Submitted by vivifidal on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 16:40.
Since not everyone eats apple, grape, orange and pears, although perhaps more should, but everyone breaths air it is a bit presumptive to force a civic project which involves chemicals to which some individuals are highly sensitive . In places where the issue is mosquitos bearing west Nile virus the issue is a bit more difficult and where the disease is malaria even more difficult still. A recently released report details numerous diseases with pest vectors affecting the most impoverished areas of the US but little is done to control them, yet when the economic wellbeing of the elite are threatened, suddenly it becomes civic responsibility to control the pests even if it means using cutting edge techniques.
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Submitted by vivifidal on Fri, 07/04/2008 - 16:17.
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i remember when they sprayed Malathion

Submitted by cjmoore on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 23:45.
of course this is about some greedy chemical company, that has the moral standards of a cockroach.Oh and i really don't mean to insult cockroaches, even as i dispatch them to a higher plane.Airplane?
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Jefferson would have said

Submitted by vivifidal on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 21:00.

'that all roaches, regardless of cockiness are created equal and endowed well or not with certain alien charateristcs that appear to be in right now or if your gonna ride don't ride the white horse, ride the ride rabbit, all the way to Whitehouse, which totally sucks compared to Monticello...anyway DDT had extremely low human toxicity but screwed the environment something fierce and its gone. Chemicals come and go, from where we usually know but to where who's to know or say? If we don't do something dastric it looks like greed is here to stay." At least if he had time travel and had taken way more LSD than anyone should. I'm pretty sure those would be his exact words...that and "DAMN! I sure like young black pussy!" Thats pretty much what he would say.That and "where's my GD airplane you MFs they gots some kinda of airforce one and I'll I have is this lame ass buggy, and does it have rims,no, you see rims on this hoopdee? ?Have you been into my shiznitzal bag agains, FU brings me my GODS DAMNS fiddle so I can dstracts myself from yoors lame assedness!"

He was a pretty good writer but totally lacking in social skills.

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Monticello blues

Submitted by cjmoore on Sat, 06/28/2008 - 00:31.

they knew how to build a dweling so that it let the sunshine in, let the sunshine, let the sunshine, let the sunhine in, And Tom's friend Ben knew how to cook rice with a lightning bolt outa the blue, all that Masonic Deist and influence of the Rights of Man, all that revolution/ electric flags, and the Moors influence, and i spell, M, A, N, i'm a man with rights too, and God is a black woman and she is pissed.Jefferson airplane and white rabbit and i thought i had taken 1000 acid trips at least, but i later revised that number.My novel tells about the most remembered trips.

I wonder what would happen is a spray airplane was shot down by a friday night special.? 

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glad you got it...

Submitted by vivifidal on Sat, 06/28/2008 - 13:37.

luv ya to death...

Uh, Ice Tea freebe on the k-hole flipside of an overdrive requiem for the the uptown b-boys and the milfy happy to have a b-toys, they be thinkin thunk and be smokin skunk on the downtown bound e-line to getsome feline.

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Submitted by vivifidal on Fri, 07/04/2008 - 16:16.
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