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RE: [NAFEX] Japanese beetles, DDT?

From: "Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>
To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Japanese beetles, DDT?
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 11:20:54 -0800

Yes, it has. I wasn’t saying that my childhood didn’t occur well before 1972… ;-)

The problems with DDT linger, of course.

Stephen Sadler, Ph.D.

USDA 9, AHS heat zone 8,

Sacramento CA - Mediterranean climate

From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lucky Pittman
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 8:30 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: [NAFEX] Japanese beetles, DDT?

At 03:03 PM 3/7/2005 -0800, S.Sadler wrote:

Out here we don t really have problems with Japanese beetles the problems we have are with the DDT spray used to control them.

DDT use has been banned in the USA since 1972;

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