> On Thu, 27 May 1999 17:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Deborah Wisti-Peterson
> <nyneve at u.washington.edu> writes:
>
> >snip<
>
> >there is a >beetle, genus Gallicaria,
> that apparently feeds exclusively on purple loosestrife, and this beetle
> is just now being >introduced into the fill.

Ha--until all the purple loosestrife is gone--Opps--we didn't think it would
eat other plants. Or that it would mutate into a 20 pound carnivorous beetle,
genus Gargantuan, that attacks birders. Hmmm???

Maybe they will just disappear when they are no longer needed. ;-)

Jerry and Sandy Converse
Grand Coulee, WA

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Remember, amateurs built the Ark and
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