…the news weren’t bad enough already, now New England must contend with this.
Oh, for the days when a “beetle invasion” meant this:
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Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely 
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Two more bullets and they’ll be together again.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
And if you don’t think Ringo could use one check out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpd24yVy5C4&fmt=18
October 22nd, 2008 at 6:33 pm
This is sad. I just moved to New England a year ago, and am loving the trees.
October 22nd, 2008 at 6:33 pm
NY state has them critters too. we forget that as some species becoeme extinct, others enter new niches. the escape of lion fish has been devastating coastal fish after the hurricane smashed their shoreline tanks.
the pidgeons of ny arent from ny, the rats arent either. we now have a roach tussel as a chinese breed has been invading what used to be the german cockroaches territory (and yes i am aware that other countries, pick other countries).
every volcanic island was colonized that way naturally by being carried by the ocean. every new species disrupted the situation till they were there long enough for it to stabilize, then you get a populaiton explosion as the niches are filled.
kind of funny that the progressives who are so keen on moving forward, attempt to prevent extinctions as if they could. the political system that is coming to dominate doesnt care about nature, nature and other such things is a bougiousie thing. you need to be wealthy enough to be willing to shoulder the higher costs of such luxuries
we have a kind of short term view, because on the scale with which new species are created and the planets contents evolves, any effort we make is futile. 20 million years from now what will be the case?
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Where is Mark David Chapman when we really need him?
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Attica
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:49 pm
So why isn’t Ayers in there with him? For my money, Chapman DSAF.
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Neo and others residing in New England:
Have the gypsy moths gotten under control? I recall years when they DEVASTATED all the trees.
IIRC, Haavaad is to thank for the importation of the gypsy moth. It got loose from one of their labs.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Soon you will see the environmentalists filing injunctions to protect the Asian long horned beetle, this will put the tree huggers in an uncomfortable position. Look what is happening in Colorado. I was shocked the last time I drove through there:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jan/15/beetle-infestation-get-much-worse/
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:29 pm
We had some kind of bark beetle come thru NM. It ate the pinon trees. Killed a whole lot of them. Which gives us good firewood for several years. Pinon smells great as it burns. The upshot is that as the forests recover they will be healthier. They had been protected from the natural fire cycle for 100 years and they were too thick therefore weakened and QED susceptible to the bark beetles. End of the story – the trees died, so did the bark beetles, the trees will come back, the beetles won’t unless the cycle gets repeated. It is called nature, folks.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:30 am
There are many possible measures less dramatic than chopping down the trees, like breeding the beetles in laboratory and gamma-ray irradiation of males with subsequent release into infested area. Chromosomes of spermatozoids became heavily damaged, so their progeny is infertile. That way the local population can be wiped out completely. Forest administration simply know nothing about genetics.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:40 am
Occam’s Beard,
he isnt there because they made a mistake in his cases, and so the thing had to be thrown out. then double jeopardy clause comes in. he also has the weight of the lefts best lawyers and considerations from the beaureaus of other countries.
on the thing with these beetles. i design new equipment. i am working in my job on the side creating medical solutiosn with the docs where i work. years ago i came up with a way to help with the beetle problem. i heard someone was going to work on something similar, and so i didnt bother. however, one can thread a piezo wire through areas of the tree that bend. this acts as both a power source and a sensor. the syste listens to the tree, and detects the chewing and drilling. it IS possible to hear the little critters chewing away. burst to wifi once in a while reporting status would allow the system to report a tree early on in infection.
gypsy moths turned out to be less of a problem than we thought. while they did a lot of damage, they werent causing the total denuement that we were warned of. i was in jersey at the time of the largest outbreaks, and it was awful. but few trees died… though the black ugly rings from painting sticky crap on it turned out to look worse.
in case no one has noticed, the response of the state to this multiplies the harm that this beetle causes. (lots of creatures we do nothing about eat out trunks of trees. carpenter ants, termites, etc). however, find a hole in a tree large enough, and the humans in conjunction with the beetle will cut it down!!! would a single beetle be able to do that to a tree on its own?
in the effort to eradicate the ineradicatable, they are denuding the area of what trees we have wholesale.
what they want is to preserve everything statically!!!
under normal circumstances, these beetles would denude the trees, the trees would die, the beetles would die, and the trees would come back in 500 years. how do you think they survived the past 300 million?
its just that we dont like not having them around for a while…
the way they look at this is a clear peek into the fact that these people are the opposite of visionaries (pretending their nearsighted shortsigtedness is visionary).
but take polution… within 100 years, the easiest place to mine for raw materials will be a garbage dump!!! we are already developing technology to do that as part of the reclamation effort, since reclamed metal is cheaper than mining ore.
we are so worried about scarring an earth that wont rememver us past a 100k years, let alone geoogical time… meanwhile, we have whole planets to play with!!! we have already contaminated mars. some day, we will make things that pollute horribly in space… and vent the stuff as molecular gas to be swept away by the solar wind… (of course they will claim that we are littering the universe!)
invasive species are a problem… why? because the conservatives want to progress slowly, and the marxists are mega conservatives who are so much against change, that such things scare the pants off of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
think about it. a central planned economy cant afford random acts of God! so all their efforts are to stagnate us, and theoretically in a confucian way, create a means to a command economy. think logans run… fixed population, fixed use of materials… we know what we need because over time, we learn what we need… however for such to work (And why i call it confucian), is that the whole place has to stagnate and fixate to one fixed stasis… no new anything. social justice means if you invent a cure for diabedes, or a way to get rid of this bug, we are not allowed to make it since we incure a huge social justice cost for not being able to provide it to everyone equally! so right there is the mechanism to stop new inventiosn from coming into the pipeline.. the greenies are trying to command nature to stop darwin… the people are being homogenized through screwing their birth selections (indiscriminate births built on physical attraction will homogenize us back to somethign like horses, rather than individuals like we are now). no new energy… limiting the source of the move and ability to progress (no energy, no progress, too little energy, we regress back as we cant maintain things).
their goals are contradictory… since a one world government would create even more of this kind of CHANGE…
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:43 am
i hate wordpress filters… big time..
if you know big words, like suma cum laude, they think your a pervert since the word cum is in it.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:44 am
you put down scientific names of beasties, and they think your talking dirty…
i cut down the list
oak splendour beetle
old world bollworm, cotton bollworm
olive fruit fly
orange spiny whitefly
oriental chestnut gall wasp
oriental fruit fly
oriental fruit moth
palm thrips
papaya mealybug
passionvine mealybug
peach fruit fly
peach fruit moth
pear leaf blister moth
pecan weevil
pine beauty moth
pine caterpillar
pine flat bug
pine processionary moth
pine shoot beetle
Pine-tree lappet
pink bollworm
pink hibiscus mealybug
plum curculio
plum fruit moth
poplar long-horned beetle
potato psyllid
prickly pear moth
Queensland fruit fly
red imported fire ant
redbay ambrosia beetle
rice leafhopper
rice stinkbug
rosy gypsy moth
Russian wheat aphid
rustic borer
rutherglen bug
satin moth
seed worms
Siberian silk moth
silverleaf whitefly
silvery moth
Sirex woodwasp
Siricid woodwasps
six-spined engraver beetle
six-toothed spruce bark beetle
small hive beetle
small poplar borer
small spruce fly
small white-marmorated long-horned beetle
soft wax scale
South African carnation tortrix
South African citrus thrips
southern corn rootworm
soybean aphid
spiny caterpillar
strawberry tortrix
straw-colored tortrix moth
summer fruit tortrix moth
sunn pest
swede midge
sweetpotato weevil
tomato looper
turnip moth
two-toothed pine beetle
viburnum leaf beetle
vine borer
violet tanbark beetle
Virginiacreeper leafhopper
west indian powderpost drywood termite
western corn rootworm
wheat bug
white stem borer
winter moth
wood borer of coigue
do you think we will actually get control of all those?
and thats just the worst insects… not all of them…
why are the people voting for change not liking change?
Constant change is the way it always is.. their desire to stop it, and make the halt of it appear as change is amazing…
the issue is change with concordance to the progress of the past, which moves us forward. or change without such, which is akin to random action, which does the opposite, resets the maching by shuffling the progress of the past back to nothing.
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October 23rd, 2008 at 9:36 am
It can be better to import their natural predators from China, too.
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:22 am
Now Neo… As a fellow New Englander you know transplanted species very rarely survive the New England winter.
I’ve been here 27 years and still barely make it to April. My daughter’s high school soccer game last night had a 3-4 minute snow squall pass through (CT!) Just New England’s way of making sure we don’t get too comfortable.
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:52 am
I think this must be what happened to liberals in the Bay Area. /g
March 5th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
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August 10th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Title…
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