Re: Re: pillbugs


From: Irisborer@aol.com

In a message dated 9/13/1999 4:41:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, BILLS@hsc.edu 
writes:

<< Another name for them is "sow-bug"
 because the young develop and are carried in a pouch under the female's
 body and bear a fancied resemblance to piglets suckling a sow. >>

Fascinating stuff, Bill!  And fit for reprinting in the Bulletin with your 
permission.  The AIS is looking for gleanings from the robin to add to their 
resurrected "FlightLines" column - excerpts from snail mail robins.

I particularly enjoyed your post because I spent the weekend with people of 
the organic/IPM persuasion.  One woman does a call-in show on TV and says 
that she is constantly getting calls that more or less say "there's a bug in 
my garden - how can I kill it?!?!", regardless whether the bug is causing any 
harm.

I would not call my style organic..... more like laissez-faire (sp?) 
gardening.  Or que sera gardening.  But I do believe that with our gardens - 
as with our bodies, the less chemical meddling we do, the better off we are.

I confess to Cygon and hearty blasting away at hornets and their ilk.  But 
the rest of the wee beasties can expect an occasional fling into the 
Clampett's yard at worst.

I too see these little tanks in my pots and in the wake of little green 
tragedies - but I had already supposed that they were more of a clean up crew 
than the actual enemy.

Kathy Guest in East Aurora, NY
resisting going shopping

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