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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

Try watching Star Wars again.....
 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090531/ap_on_sc/us_super_laser
 
"..........................The NIF, which is the size of a football field, 
consists of 192 separate laser beams, each traveling 1,000 feet in 
one-thousandth of a second to converge simultaneously on a target the size of 
a pencil eraser....Beginning next year, scientists also will use the laser 
for experiments aimed at creating controlled fusion reactions similar to 
those found in the sun."
 
 
The desription sounds eerily the same as the laser beam used on the Death 
Stars..... and how much ya wanna make a bet those "experiments" will include 
a set of giant mirrors in the sky to be used to aim at anywhere "Earth"  ?


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--- On Sun, 5/31/09, Rob <becida AT comcast.net> wrote:



At  5/16/2009 08:54 AM,EarthNSky wrote:
>I saw Star Trek Last night.  



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Yuck. I hate them. Always have a problem with them. The guineas are not
interested, neither are the hens. It's been dry here, missed last weeks
rain. So yesterday evening, I got me niece to glove up and I watered the
squash until they were flooded and we mashed bugs. Got all the eggs off
leaves that we saw.

I'm hoping that this year, raiding the squash bugs early on (the squash are
just starting to run) will start the war off right on my side.

I did some searching and saw that Jerry Baker's book recommends growing in
tires:

http://books.google.com/books?id=UeDHKeYd0KcC&pg=PA279&lpg=PA279&dq=squash+bugs+tires&source=bl&ots=gxUWeDCgbf&sig=YEmvDULkyjMPVt8QovDVZpTfeDA&hl=en&ei=Sl4lSpuBLMWFtgeM45HrBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1

Apparently, the rubber wards off the bugs. It's too late for that, but I
took some old tires and put them around some plants, just to see if those
squash have less bugs.

Interesting, I think that you can preview that whole book on Google! books.

I'm going to lay some boards down this evening and see if that attracts
adults for mashing.

How do others deal with squash bugs?

Rob - Va