ember. 6. 1987.2 bs

INTHE
plaint!. -

- Bob Hunter

@ strictly personal o

‘sweltering August heat. this: ig nota ‘coms,
/ ‘the backyard “looks” serene. and ¢ ‘peaceful! and.”
blessed. The lawn-settles gently: toward the, stream and the.

plum, tree’ sags under its burden ‘of Truit. suillness. A crow

awing inthe distance.

Lounging there Son “the
P sundeck, itis casy to imagine that

there truly is a moment of peace. *
enfolding. me. Then a wasp zizzes

byand the kids and my sife all
_dive for cover, squealing:
> whimpering.

‘Jam forced to-assume my role:
as Master of This Corner of .The
seizing/a mystic news=:

Universe,
. paper.that rolls: into:a deadly in-
sect-killing weapon, whereupon i
+ Slaughter © the tiny,” wasp yand
cethrow' its: broken body ‘down’ on
“toe the Hiwn where: ‘ants: and
4 ‘whatnot’ will, munch "it, > ex-
‘oskeleton notwithstanding.

a here!

* Relative - speaking, ‘the West

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GARY BAILEY - Mgr. PAT MUNROE- Mgr
W. Von 922-1244. OFN, Varn. 988-6131 °

and-:

Damn it; it.is'stilla jungle out,

Coast is as “close to an insect and
animal pest-free, zone as your are.

going to. get, » fact of life
generally” taken: for grammed. by
thase Jucky cnough to have, been
B.C.-born, like my wife and, kids.

It's different» for: us. am-
migrants. Often, we: ‘comd: from

-parts' of the-world where insects

swarnv. and -chip and, nibble “and,
chomp and stirig and inject para:
sites ‘into your blood. systeny: in
unrelenting waves, flying, dropp-

ing, hopping, sticking-t0, content
to' feed upon you even if you. are
“still alive.

‘My particular. ordeal ‘was, io:
“have,
“the” Land’: of. the ‘Grasshopper,::
= Black Fly.and Real Mosquitoes.

been’ born ‘in’ the Prairies

- Besser,

“here.

anyway,

veven thant

My jrative BCs
stemmed fo cas mellow iisecé
environment thatd dont sec how

they: could survive-incany other:

part of the world,

AL von have to doi is BO d COU-
pleat dozen miles anlend,
Vou carrive: in the Land’ of
Bur Saft Awful:
Columbia Interior Mosquito.

the
British
The

less said'about that the better:
finest:

‘was ‘about the
can: remember

This lw:
summer, E
God knows why.

around

+ Oh” well,
iv was (fun while eit lasted,

Byolfine,
that is! basically more: important

lack. of rains
you want to put ity

AMtfine’! summer i
the insect:

‘one whi
tare held.

family 18 oso,

Coopers,

and.

erates a wasp's, ne

Probably |
chas something to do with the ear:
dy Greenhouse. ef

1 mean: something :

amount. of'suiaor 7
“Wwhiches ro oway.,

ef burns Jaunted ad any:
Nod the: childrencare slot

Tyswaatt
Juned,

“govered with bites.

This year We didn p even have

Sto dab ans repellent ant

Deas me an m,chot in
pease nl cotains MCtenden: fesh +
E ows ard ihine whuit iy deeds

“US And the absence. of Mosquito

bites ia forty of joy in itsell:

I scot APA) see go0d,
Course, . ces

dust around os own vaitdl
have noticed “that
halinee changes: ever
two summers have be
the sume, | should have she
‘ards, bur we still rake clitate as
Ta catien. | doo know thar a sew”

ago ctheresywas an

‘oserabundance | ; :

ft tapered otf:
few that we have dec!

thin’ sear to se

éd to tol.
no the “attic,
Phere’s oa quitteresized “hole. in
the wall just dnder the eaves. In-
to this the wasps have been seen
tovlides.% 4

Iisa: big political’ quésiion

ground the house, Should we at-
Tada che wasps av their citadel or
try, wo maintain the bahance of
terror thar we, have?

They: don’t actually, atrack us,
Mow sees They 2i22 close, which,
“doesn't bother me,. but spre, ads
panic! around ‘the 2! family.”

“tive strikes, ;

I: would: _ happily escort

Superette

Masse.’ forcing, me-into - preemp. 5

“the

2 out,

poison-tipped “dagger,
“menace To society.

: house, :
not inte .the = sea,sinto’ the cold:

a tying :
“bothers

Wthe spiders, but you justcan't |
do (hab with aowasp. Abo, they

Jive outside,

oHt they come ito the hows

© proper) bave noi choice bur ton

destray them, since they: always
get: pinicky because af dhe win:
dows, which they can’t. figure
And: in their jittery state,
armed. with - ae: deadly © tittle
they) area

we've cmoved Sin
seve chad) to bring. in, the
menadeath | guys in-cthe ~misks
with the “insecticides. that. are so
powerful you have to: abandon.
the house for at deast three days,
and Jthens serub- the ‘surface of
everything down,

This is the equivalent of nuk-
ings, We only did it because thes
carpenter ants were digesting the
They? would | drive. us; if

1 wice since

night airs So, Sadly but having no |
option, we unteitshed the exter |
minators. 7 oy j
The politics of sk faring a plane |
with’ insects! That lawn: of: “ming
— $0 deceptively’ bucolic. 11
battlefield; actually. My wimps :

fiheralism shows):

ICs seeing: all heir litte bodies :
around : afterwards”: that
mes 1 must: admit.

“H's lonely at the: “top ‘of!

“food chain.®."-: