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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-04 12:41 PM Original message |
Chinese Beetle Decimating Ash Trees |
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mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-04 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
1. Hmmm . . . I had two green ash trees killed by boring insects in |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-04 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. this is one of the hidden downsides of global "free" trade agreements.... |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-04 02:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Chestnut blight, Dutch Elm disease, fire ants, Formosan termites . . . |
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donsu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-04 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
3. back in the early '40s Chinese Beetles were a plague around D.C. |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-04 01:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Don't you mean "Japanese Beetles"? |
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donsu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-04 02:35 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Your right! It was Japanese Beetles. Sorry, forget I ever said anything |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-09-04 12:02 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Chinese, Japanese, you know how all those Asian beetles look alike |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-04 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
7. This sort of thing isn't new. The near extinction of the American Chestnut |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-04 04:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Harpers had a really interesting article about five years back |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-16-04 03:21 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. I'm afraid I have to agree. |
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gate of the sun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-14-04 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
10. beetles are wrecking havoc all over the place |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-16-04 01:27 AM Response to Original message |
11. I fear for all my trees |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-16-04 05:36 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. trophic cascade |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-16-04 05:56 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. NRDC's magazine had an interesting article on pine monoculture in the SE |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-17-04 08:01 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. thin soil |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-17-04 11:02 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Thin soil? Ha! I laugh on your beard, Galapagos Boy. |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-19-04 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
17. Update: Ontario Will Destroy 60,000 Ash Trees In Effort Slow Borer |
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