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Pest Survival Guide Excerpt
[…] dragging one foot across a leaf’s poisoned surface three times within seven days can help […]
It’s been quite while since we offered an anecdote, so we’re pleased to present the following edutainment piece for your reading pleasure. To prevent any confusion, it’s a fictional excerpt from a fictional book — a fictional book written by a fictional pest, for real pests — preceded by promotional comments from the fictional author:
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Linoland
We like to produce a hopefully entertaining yet somewhat educational piece of fiction once a year, an anecdote, for your enjoyment as well as our own. Historically this was done in our catalog, then it became an online practice right around catalog time. This year, while we’re on a vacation of sorts, offering a vacation from seriousness in the form of the following story seemed fitting. Enjoy.
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Living on Big Red
This is our annual anecdote meant to provide a departure from the ordinary. To learn more about this story, please check out the footnotes we’ve provided at its end.
1. Spring Springs
The sun warmed the bark of a dead tree on east side of the pasture. Under the bark a resting female paper wasp, a Queen in her own right, began to stir. The warmth provided by the spring sun was all she needed to recharge her batteries after a long, cold winter. It wouldn’t take long. A couple more nice days like this one and she would be recharged enough to venture forth. Ahead of her was a long season of hard work, but starting was all she could think about, but she first needed to get warm.
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Why Spend Millions?
Every year I write at least one anecdote to offer some levity to the otherwise dry subject of biocontrol and integrated pest management. These anecdotes are meant to make you smile, as well as deliver a subtle educational message. I really enjoy writing these; to imagine and produce — it’s fun. Normally the annual story goes in our catalog, but this year we left it out. It is right here so it wasn’t forgotten — just trying to save paper and printing costs. Enjoy:
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