<div>Spike wrote:</div>
<div>Your comment gave me an interesting idea however. We could look at the<br>possibility of breeding alternate pollinators, possibly non-flyers, such as<br>some hardy type of roach for instance. They stay nearby, they breed like<br>
mormons, and for all their undeserved reputation as diseased carriers, I<br>have never seen a sick roach. If we develop crawling pollinators we might<br>have less of a problem with their being smashed on car windows and might be<br>
easier to keep them healthy.</div>
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<div><em>Did you just say, "Breed like Mormons?" : ) </em>Why, you should have written, "breed like 19th century Mormons!" lol I just spent almost a full week in Salt Lake City and I did not see any mega-sized families. I remember as a kid fairly often seeing 8+ child Mormon families but now five offspring seems the "really big family average." I recall huge families where resources (like food) were spread way too thin and so I think this is a very good thing. </div>
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<div>Spike wrote:</div>
<div>What would really be cool is if we could somehow process the roaches into<br>food at the end of the pollination season, or perhaps feed them to the hogs.<br>Of course it does have some psychological factors (...fruit trees black with<br>
creepy roaches, ewww...) but we will overcome that hangup once we get<br>sufficiently hungry.<br>>>><br></div>
<div>My mom would have a heart attack from sheer horror if your plan was implemented... But what about using flies? I have seen them going after nectar and they tend to "breed like flies!" I think this may be the wave of the future. It has to be better than using roaches. </div>
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<div><a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/flies.shtml">http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/flies.shtml</a></div>
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<div>John : )</div>