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Calif releases insect to combat invasive weed (over 5,000 water hyacinth plant hoppers)
SFGate.com ^ | 7/30/11 | AP

Posted on 07/30/2011 2:40:04 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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1 posted on 07/30/2011 2:40:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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After the critters finish off the hyacinths, what will they devour next?


2 posted on 07/30/2011 2:41:33 PM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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Ok OK.. don’t all panic at once..

Donate to FR first..

and then panic.. :-]


3 posted on 07/30/2011 2:42:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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Or maybe they will find something they prefer to water hyacinths.


4 posted on 07/30/2011 2:42:52 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: NormsRevenge

Somehow I can’t stop hearing that song about the old lady who swallowed a fly.


5 posted on 07/30/2011 2:43:33 PM PDT by Maceman (Obama: As American as nasei goreng)
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Gee - what could possibly go wrong???


6 posted on 07/30/2011 2:43:36 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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After the critters finish off the hyacinths, what will they devour next?

They never learn.

7 posted on 07/30/2011 2:45:00 PM PDT by Calusa (The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles. Quoth Bob Dylan.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Water hyacinths don’t even compost properly! I’m in the Northeast, and I’ve used them in a fish pond. In fall, I tossed ‘em onto the compost pile, and the roots form a black mass that is resistant to breakdown.


8 posted on 07/30/2011 2:45:46 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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We couldn't spray or cut the eurasian milfoil this year. (Thank you DEQ)

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9 posted on 07/30/2011 2:45:54 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: JimRed
The unintended consequences will be protecting those bugs as an endangered species.
10 posted on 07/30/2011 2:46:09 PM PDT by MaxMax
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To: NormsRevenge

This will not end well.......it NEVER does.


11 posted on 07/30/2011 2:46:35 PM PDT by Roccus (Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms to the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
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And here’s hoping that these imported critters don’t create a new problem as they chomp along on the water hyacinth.


12 posted on 07/30/2011 2:47:01 PM PDT by Clara Lou
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Why do I have a feeling that ten years from now, they’ll be looking for something to bring in to kill the invasion of these ‘hoppers’.


13 posted on 07/30/2011 2:47:04 PM PDT by mnehring
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Stop all irrigation to save the Delta Smelt and introduce a new voracious bug to eat the Water Hyacinth, and do it all at Taxpayer Expense.

What could go wrong?


14 posted on 07/30/2011 2:50:05 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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My feelings, too. It’s not like these hoppers are on leashes.


15 posted on 07/30/2011 2:50:31 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Why do I have a feeling that ten years from now, they’ll be looking for something to bring in to kill the invasion of these ‘hoppers’.

No worries.

They'll just bring in cane toads.

16 posted on 07/30/2011 2:50:58 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Calusa

Someone made the decision. Names? And if anything bad happens, they should have to explain themselves.


17 posted on 07/30/2011 2:53:54 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: NormsRevenge

Gee,California has really gone downhill.
When I lived there all you needed to worry about was the canyon meth head crazies.


18 posted on 07/30/2011 2:55:18 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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This is going to turn out bad. It always does when they think they know better than nature.


19 posted on 07/30/2011 2:56:11 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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The chances are slim that the cane toads will develop needle-sharp teeth but if they do, then all they have to do is import the only slightly venomous rake snakes, which love cane toads.


20 posted on 07/30/2011 2:56:46 PM PDT by tumblindice (Our founding fathers and their families: all armed conservatives)
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