Another freaking beetle to worry about

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fireview2788

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Our local newspaper has a special color insert about the Asian Long Eared Beetle. It gave great information and color photos of what the nasty little creature feasts on. Ash, birch, elm, hackberry, and the list goes on. Just what we need, more tree loss.



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I believe that is a ALH ( horned) not ALE, been here quite awhile just been overshadowed by EAB. Dang thing chews on everything woody.
 
IIRC they don't have the range of the EAB so it "should" take a little longer for them to destroy our forests. I often wonder if anything will be left when my children are my age. :(
 
But they don't chew on that. Hey, just Idea, a geneticaly mutated bug that eats plastic. I suppose that would be to benificial. Most everything would fall apart.
 
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blades said:
But they don't chew on that. Hey, just Idea, a geneticaly mutated bug that eats plastic. I suppose that would be to benificial. Most everything would fall apart.
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A nightmarish thought for anyone with young kids, whose rec. room is a sea of plastic toys.

<-- waiting for plastic to be traded as a precious metal, like Gold or Silver
 
fireview2788 said:
Our local newspaper has a special color insert about the Asian Long Eared Beetle. It gave great information and color photos of what the nasty little creature feasts on. Ash, birch, elm, hackberry, and the list goes on.
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Great. You're not that far from here, either. :(
blades said:
Dang thing chews on everything woody.
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Thanks, blades. ;)
rdust said:
IIRC they don't have the range of the EAB so it "should" take a little longer for them to destroy our forests.
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That EAB is right on my doorstep, a county or two away. :(
Joful said:
Yeah, but look at all the money we're saving on importing our novelty fake dog crap from China, instead of manufacturing domestically.
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Thanks for pointing that out; I feel better now....NOT! :mad:
 
rdust said:
IIRC they don't have the range of the EAB so it "should" take a little longer for them to destroy our forests. I often wonder if anything will be left when my children are my age. :(
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So did our fathers.
 
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Joful said:
Yeah... but unfortunately, in many areas, they were right!

<-- watched his family's land turn from farms to development in the 1980's/1990's
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Oh ya. Amazing how much of that has happened in my time.
 
Backwoods Savage said:
So did our fathers.
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Our fathers didn't have as many imported threats as we do. Mother nature will find a way to keep going long after we're gone but I hate seeing the destruction these little bugs can cause.
 
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rdust said:
Our fathers didn't have as many imported threats as we do. Mother nature will find a way to keep going long after we're gone but I hate seeing the destruction these little bugs can cause.
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"There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The people are F'd! The planet has been here for 4.5 billion years, and people... 200,000? We've only been engaged in heavy industry for 200 years... the planet has been thru a lot worse than us. The planet isn't going anywhere... we are!"
 
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Joful said:
Yeah, but look at all the money we're saving on importing our novelty fake dog crap from China, instead of manufacturing domestically.
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Yah, that about sums up the trading and manufacturing situation in the US today. We have sold our souls, jobs, land, business, bond debt, and future for cheap Chicom crap. And now seemingly even the pork industry; they will own the bacon! <biting nails just thinking about it>
 
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Joful said:
A nightmarish thought for anyone with young kids, whose rec. room is a sea of plastic toys.

<-- waiting for plastic to be traded as a precious metal, like Gold or Silver
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You're not far off; plastic is made of petroleum byproducts i.e. coming from oil ... and that's traded like gold and silver

...I hear the sound of footsteps rushing as everybody runs to melt down their kids toys....
 
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blades said:
I believe that is a ALH ( horned) not ALE, been here quite awhile just been overshadowed by EAB. Dang thing chews on everything woody.
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You are correct, sorry.

fv
 
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Maybe we train them to eat Willow trees. A C
 
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