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  • From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] my comments on the little orange devils
  • Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 21:00:36 +0000

Story I heard from a professional entomologist is the government introduction didn't work; rather, the Asian lady beetles we see today are ancestors of ones which snuck in thru customs like so many other insect species. So, I guess we can blame either the government deliberate action, or government lack of inspectors. Either way, government just trying to give the people what they want (joking).

tc, s.WI, where we don't need conspiracy theories because fact it astonishing enough


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From: fuwa fuwa usagi <fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com>
Reply-To: fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com,North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] my comments on the little orange devils
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 19:33:25 -0700 (PDT)

A couple of you wondered if fluffy is a conspiracy theorist after my comments on the asian ladybird beetles. Naw, Art Bell has never been my style :)

Here is one of many comments and links availabel on the topic though.

<snip>

Actually, these ladybugs are from Asia. According to entomologists at the University of California Riverside (UCR), the Asian Lady Beetle (or Harmonia Axyridis, if you want to get fancy) was introduced to the U.S. intentionally by the Department of Agriculture to help control aphid populations. However, it worked better than expected and in the early 90's the species, which has no natural enemy in North America, established itself. It is now reaching epidemic proportions.

<end snip>

Source:

http://www.journalism.ryerson.ca/online/krazy/over/wseccombe.htm

Fluf

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