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County Ag Commissioner: "tent the whole county to get rid of them damn Jap flies!!"

Asian fruit fly could do something... Asian fruit fly threatens to do something... Asian fruit fly a danger to someone... Asian fruit fly has blueberry and blackberry growers on edge..

well those are the warnings I keep hearing and authorities always try to keep the Jap flies from crossing our borders, but I still have oranges in my refrigerator...no flies on me..

and whatever happened to the Mediterranean fruit fly or the gypsy moth? where did they go? did we kill 'em all? or are they hiding in the trees...

well the county ag commissioner is ready willing and able to start with the poisoning....
The key problem with government's handling of the issue of non-natives is that it takes a simplistic view, bundling all the species together and exaggerating their effects on ecosystems and commercialism; if they come from outside our borders, we must assume they are harmful until we have evidence to prove otherwise. Resulting legislation such as those referenced above grant government sweeping authority, threaten property rights and authorize billions of taxpayer dollars when the actual problem is a small number of non-native species that impact the economic interests of some commercial industries.

so where are they? all these invaders ready to decimate the local farms? maybe you'll find one in a little insect trap hanging from trees....

there are fruit flies native to the USA...what about them? they eat ripe and rotten fruit too....why no agriculture hysteria about the native fruit flies? Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are native to most of the United States, and can smell fresh, ripe, fruits and vegetables....yummy!

Xenophobia—an unfortunate tendency of some unthinking humans to dislike things foreign—has given non-native plants and animals a bad name. The media, some researchers, and environmental interest groups are largely to blame, raising the level of hysteria by playing on public fears with articles and books that evoke images of attacking aliens that, left unchecked, will multiply and conquer life as we know it.

ok so it's more invasive species hysteria from the feds and Nature Conservany folks....

but all the farmers gotta do is plant some basil, garlic, and Venus flytraps and the fruit flies will be controlled...but if they keep poisoning plants to kill the flies, the flies will develop resistance and keep coming back..and the hysterical poisoning cycle will repeat...

the only question is "why?"