Razzbar

On Mar 27, 1:40 pm, Maren at google <m.pur...@jach.hawaii.edu> wrote:

> As I keep telling ya: as long as we kill the mites without killing
> the bees.
> Not sure I like bringing in another think to kill things (think
> mongoose), but if it really only kills mites ... (I'd like the
> beekeepers
> study this. It's in all our best interest, but the beekeepers
> more than most.)

I remember the banana skipper back in the 70's. It was a moth or
something that laid it eggs on banana leaves. The eggs would hatch and
these big white caterpillars would come out and roll up the banana
leaves and strip them. It was wrecking banana trees left and right.
THEN the state came along and released some kind of wasp that took on
the skippers, and brought them under control. You still see evidence
of the skipper, but not bad. The wasps never became a problem.

Bio controls and predator introductions are pretty scary, but
sometimes they work.