The California Department of Food and Agriculture announced Thursday it would cease spraying synthetic sex pheromones designed to confuse male light brown apple moths and instead will release sterilized insects to interfere with the breeding cycle of the pest.
As a boy back east there was a mosquito abatement program set up to fight the mosquito population. Spray trucks, regularly sprayed a thick gray cloud of insecticide up into the trees. This chemical permeated everything, kids ran behind the truck playing. The marauding mosquitoes were gone with the residual odor of the spray. We looked forward to the spray truck coming around and life without being harassed by mosquitoes.
The difference then and now is a matter of appreciation. Now invert the situation, those bellyaching about the harmless spraying for the apple moth would be raising the roof about the spraying to control the mosquitoes. Unfortunately the city and county leaders of today have no spine, no strength of conviction, they are easily pushed around by which ever group of big mouths are spouting off at the time. It seems everything is governed by the bullying tactics of these disputatious few loud mouths who have nothing better to do then to see who and/or which group or office they can castigate.
As a boy back east there was a mosquito abatement program set up to fight the mosquito population. Spray trucks, regularly sprayed a thick gray cloud of insecticide up into the trees. This chemical permeated everything, kids ran behind the truck playing. The marauding mosquitoes were gone with the residual odor of the spray. We looked forward to the spray truck coming around and life without being harassed by mosquitoes.
The difference then and now is a matter of appreciation. Now invert the situation, those bellyaching about the harmless spraying for the apple moth would be raising the roof about the spraying to control the mosquitoes. Unfortunately the city and county leaders of today have no spine, no strength of conviction, they are easily pushed around by which ever group of big mouths are spouting off at the time. It seems everything is governed by the bullying tactics of these disputatious few loud mouths who have nothing better to do then to see who and/or which group or office they can castigate.
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