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RE: synthetic pyrethroids


-----Mensaje original-----
De: Jerry Heverly <heverlyj@ccnet.com>
Para: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Fecha: sábado, 24 de octubre de 1998 3:58
Asunto: synthetic pyrethroids


>The whole subject of synthetic pyrethroids contains within it all the
>subtleties and paradoxes inherent in the larger topic of pesticides.
>Consider:

Jerry
Ants are one of the plagues of the Med - tiny black superintelligent little
brutes and no doubt cousins drive California nuts too. Here you used to buy
"lead" toothpaste tubes of syrup called "Lotus" containing an unspecified
amount of arsenic that worked a dream. I rather think that Spain has stopped
that, certainly my wife has and now uses phenomenal quantities of "Vim"  a
household scourer in powder form wherever she sees an ant. This has worked
too, though I do not see clearly why chlorine is preferable to arsenic.
Miraculous Chinese Chalk is obviously one weapon and possibly Vim.  Has
anyone others? Has anyone tried rings of Chalk round orange tree trunks?
    Your letter was very interesting. It reinforces ones opinion that life
is a practical matter of drawing lines in a continuum avoiding excesses.

Hugo Latymer                                                latymer@ctv.es
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