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2007-03-21 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

YEMEN: Specialists fight new locust swarms

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 RIGHTNATION > WORLD'S GREATEST RIVERS AT RISK. Taken collectively wid other news, apparently the world is about to view the debut of LOCUST-ZILLAS WASP-ZILLAS, and ANT-ZILLAS, etal, besides the awakening of the mythical Russian octopus Cthulu. Only the Global Toga can save us.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-21 02:43|| 2007-03-21 02:43|| Front Page Top

#2 wanted: Splody Dopes for grasshopper jihad.

Allah Akbar

Posted by RD 2007-03-21 04:08|| 2007-03-21 04:08|| Front Page Top

#3 But if Cthulhu is Russian, then he can't run for president! We're doomed!

http://www.cthulhu.org/

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2007-03-21 06:49|| 2007-03-21 06:49|| Front Page Top

#4 It's almost passover.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-21 07:04|| 2007-03-21 07:04|| Front Page Top

#5 "Hey Orkin Man!!!"

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-03-21 14:07|| 2007-03-21 14:07|| Front Page Top

#6 I do wonder what they're using to fumigate the locusts. There are checmicals in use today to fight insect pests that will be in our food chains for years if not longer - and despite my own rejection of Rachel Carson's arguments in "Silent Spring", there are dangers of overuse of pesticides or using them in an improper manner.

It is precisely this kind of overuse and abuse of insecticides in the past which results in recurring locust swarms today. Insects go through many generations per year and it only takes 1 genetic abnormality at 1 location to be passed onto the next generation to make that generation resistant to a particular insecticide.

The problem is that nations like Yemen utilize "experts" which have little training in proper insecticide use and fumigate entire areas of cropland with overdoses and heavy concentrations of persistent chemicals rather than follow conservative principles of usage.

It's like using nerve gas to take out an ant hill - and it has much the same effect.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-03-21 16:09|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-03-21 16:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh, yeah...and these so-called specialists are idiots.

There are species of locusts right here in California that eat up to 16 times their own weight in food each day (yes, I said and meant 16 times) - and they're not particularly finicky about what type of food it is they eat either (there have been reports of attacks upon humans as locusts, while primarily herbivorous, will shift to omnivory when plant food supplies are low).

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-03-21 16:14|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-03-21 16:14|| Front Page Top

#8 What? They don't believe this is a sign from Allen?

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-03-21 21:29|| 2007-03-21 21:29|| Front Page Top

#9 omnivory

What a delightful word, FOTSGreg!

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-21 22:23|| 2007-03-21 22:23|| Front Page Top

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