sfhellwig
Mame
Are you shitting me , what is it your worried about that isn't here from Japan allready, some kind of asian herpes ?
keep it green,
Harry
Heaven help me, but I can resist no longer. I did not want to be the one that posted the STD approach but it is fitting. What Harry is saying is that the "bad things" that are here are here. Why try to stop them any more. Besides the ones that aren't in the states already, what we do have can be made worse with new infestations. I remember in a health class once upon a time being illustrated that people with STDs should not have unprotected sex with other people with STDs. Even if you reason that both people have herpes, individual cases vary, you reinfect each other, you can compound the disease. Don't quote me as I have no solid facts but I think you get the idea.
Just a few hours away Springfield, MO had bad Japanese Beetle that damaged a small bonsai grower there. I never saw the things (this year). I also look at the effects of Pine Wilt every day just driving to work and all the trees left standing to host next years scourge. If someone shipped a load of infested pine wood into Harry's neighborhood his trees would be fine, this year. But once all of the stressed species are gone the Sawyer beetles will move onto the next stressed pine species, which will eventually be what is on your bench. Are you agreeing that vendors just trying to "get theirs" should bring that infested wood into your neighborhood Harry?
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