Asperger's Syndrome

[Harmon Seaver]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:45:18AM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> At 07:04 PM 5/7/03 -0700, Mike Rosing wrote:
> >A world without mosquitoes would be pretty bleak given how many other
> >things eat them.  Better to wipe out the malaria and swat the
> mosquitos!
> 
> Still, you're in the minority.  If one could kill all the blood-biting
> mosquitoes
> without killing other bugs, birds, 'gators, etc it would be a good
> thing.
> Even if you eliminated malaria its not a good vector to have around.
> 
> And I bet most people would accept losing a very few species, or
> reducing
> the productivity of mosquito areas (probably temporarily), to get rid
> of the mosquito.  Throw in poison ivy/oak extinction to convince most of
> the greens
> who hike and you've got a winner :-)
> 

   Not I. My attire most of the Summer is just tank top and shorts, with very
open sandals, no socks - and a spend a lot of time wandaring through the woods
hunting mushrooms. My favorite mushroom woods is just thick with poison ivy, I
don't even bother to try to avoid it, just wade thru it. And I used to be very
allergic to it years ago, but I think you must desensitize to it the more you're
around it. And as I said before, the mosquitoes really aren't that bad, just
quit swatting at them. I'll take bugs over smokers anytime. 


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> "When one tugs at a single thing in Nature, he finds it hitched to the
> rest of the Universe" - John Muir
> ---
> You can buy patented mice and you're not allowed to copy them.
> -the state of bio IP

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