Re: Re: pillbugs
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: pillbugs
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- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 06:52:07 EDT
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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