My understanding is that herbicides alone don't. The additives they add to reduce cost of spraying kill bees and other critters. Ed Reinertsen ... From: Robert...
Thanks for the info, Ed and Robert. A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings...
I love my leaf cutter bees. They make little colonies behind the siding of my garage. I have a several year old bumblebee colony behind my back porch,...
I'm not sure what species of Yellow jacket you have but they too may be of European origin. The reason they appear to get aggressive is that their nervous...
Thanks for the info, Robert. I still felt bad for getting rid of them, however. I'm getting more Jain as I get older, LOL. If I didn't spend a lot of time...
This is probably true as it has been found that its the additives not the active chemical in Round-Up that kills Salamanders. ... From: Ed Reinertsen...
You won't get a argument from me on that issue. ... From: Robert McFetridge <mcfetr@...> Subject: Re: [NaturalHistory-L] Rare frog, snake at center of...
Many years ago I helped run a church camp for kids and was horrified to see poison ivy around. Then I realized that I had lived with rattlesnakes all my life...
John, April and all, John, I don't know how to explain what has happened, I just know that kids today are not like us when we were kids. I have 7 children my...
Hi ed, Â I don't think it's a problem with your kids from Nepal and Taiwan...I just think that humans that evolved in that region don't have the ability to...
That's why the FPD's have switched to Accord around here. It's the additives doing the damage...the surfactants. If you have ghosts.....then you have...
I agree with you Ed. Having someone, particularly a child, go into anaphylactic shock is rarely expected and very frightening. Most stinging insects and some ...
The truth is that kids in the developing world have much stronger immune systems than do our children because of the high quality of our preventive health...
April Although there are many variations of detail in the human genetic pool ,such as Tay Sachs disease most commonly known among Ashkenazi Jews but also found...
These types of creatures are common to all human groups worldwide  Very true, but their type of venom is not. They all got different types of poison going...
* Found: earliest known animal tracks?: Scientists claim to have found possibly the earliest animal footprints, but admit their report will stir skepticism. ...
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Venoms differ among different animal groups thats true so one will find very different venoms in different parts of the world. Within groups, for example...
April There is a difference to genetic diseases or other genetic anomolies that do pool in human populations and limited immunity to diseases due to lack of...
I read an article once..it may have been in Discover, about the Hobo spider. It's native to central Europe, where it's bite is apparently not that toxic to...
Venoms differ among different animal groups thats true so one will find very different venoms in different parts of the world. I understand and agree, wasps,...
April I do not know the article that you speak of but a quick search did not show up any suggestion of specific immunity among Europeans. What was significant...
Ed With respect to venoms; within a group there is variation but usually they are chemically similar. Sometimes it seems the exception is the rule but but...
I hate it when I'm wrong! With the exception of the fire ant, the venom of different insects are the same. Ed Reinertsen ... From: Robert McFetridge To:...