Yes, I think the possums were taken over for a fur industry. In urban Oz
they are also a problem, particularly with fruit, which they eat and with
sex, which they like to have on your roof when you are trying to sleep.
In the area I live, possums are as good as extinct, only a very few small
mars
Hi Gil,
If you mean those Aussie possums that climb up power poles and short
them out then yes, you can have 'em back. NZ is trying to cope with
the possums (they brought in to NZ from Oz and have become a pest
there) through all sorts of stratagems to get their numbers down such
as spinning
Hi! Tom,
We have major carp problems in our larger rivers, of which we have very
few. They have put many native fish under stress, forcing some to
extinction, as well as fouling the waters. We also have Trout trouble,
which we see are a pest feral. It has also displaced native fish. I am
intereste
I recall being sprayed with hand held sprayers as a kid going to
Europe (or returning - can't recall which) on the old prop planes
that Icelandic Airlines flew. I am pretty sure it was DDT, a white
dust which settled all over our clothes and skin. That was 1959.
As for keeping exotic species
Hi! Hugh and the List,
The spraying of aircraft coming to OZ and NZ is part of our quarantine system.
I am explaining, not apologizing.
We have the major problem Down Under, that our life forms are mainly quite
different from much of the rest of the world. Thus any new import comes without
it's
Please Fwd:
Hi Allan,
Sounds a bit like we're in the same age group. I remember that after
moving from Conway, SC that I learned of the death of one of my
friends that was run over by a fogger truck on his bicycle while
darting in and out of the fogger clouds. I didn't think at that time
I have noticed that mosquitos does not fly
inside of the airplane when the airplane is in the air.
I was observing several mosquitos inside a plane
down here in Brazil and wondering what would be
their actuall speed if they could fly inside a flying
airplane and to my surprise all of them stayed
Hugh (or anyone else) - what became of the couple who were taking capsules
of DDT daily, to prove that it was harmless to humans ? So far as I could
tell, they were eccentric, otherwise ordinary citizens, not conspicuously
sponsored by any chemical company. Can't remember any details, other tha
>Wasn't it DDT that the American mosquito abatement folks would drive
>down suburban streets rolling two great clouds of behind their trucks
>for we kids to run through in the street, playing moorish
>hide-and-seek in a couple of times a week during the summer? Those
>were the days, back when we a
Wasn't it DDT that the American mosquito abatement folks would drive
down suburban streets rolling two great clouds of behind their trucks
for we kids to run through in the street, playing moorish
hide-and-seek in a couple of times a week during the summer? Those
were the days, back when we al
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