Pat, et all; y'all need to learn how to google. I came up with this in only a few seconds...
Click the canker worm link... An article called "The History of the House (English) Sparrow".
I read Miss Marple’s link too, about the canker worms.
So that story I had in my memory’s rear view mirror was right.
This is your environmental whackos at work. Course nowadays they’d never allow importation of a foreign species so thoughtlessly. A Mexican gets into this country easier than a foreign species.
It is, however, as Altura alluded, a story of how the gubmint ought not to be involved in this sort of thing and now with global warming et al....
...well dag next thing you know they’ll be making a claim based on nothing substantive at all.
MissNMagnolia, you beat me by a mile on that Sparrow history link!
In my defense, I was out working in the garden. I picked three full Walmart bags of cherry tomatoes! Man, those things are everywhere; really viney. Everytime I thought I had a row picked clean I’d spy another bunch I missed...
While the tomatoes are really prolific I noticed not many new flowers. It’s been too hot. Here in Southern Alabama we’re having a cold spell of high 80’s rather than the 100’s of last week. I think folks far to the North and East of us are actually much hotter today.
I’m not big on flowers, bushes and stuff. I cut the lawn and my big field but as long as it’s green I’m happy. If the lawn dies back due to lack of rain, well, I doin’t have to cut it!
My okra, sweet taters, cantalopes and watermelon are still going strong. Summer squash still looks good—no vine borers like the last many years (so far). Cucumbers also going gangbusters. Sweet corn is finished. This time of year I usually let things peter out until September, when I plant Broccoli, cabage, cauliflower, green beans, and turnips.
Oh yeah, I planted Irish potatoes in February, and they died back last month. Rather than dig them up, I’m letting them stay in the ground. When I need potatoes, I just go dig up a few. Working well so far. When it cools down, I hope those I missed resprout!
I know... I was going to do that but I didn’t want to leave your wonderful thread.
How did we ever do research without The Net.
It would have taken a trip to the library and much work there.