Our scientists are introducing a foreign insect species into the UK ecosystem to combat a foreign plant introduced into the UK ecosystem. The insect is a psyllid called Aphalara itadori.
Even though there are *cough* safeguards in place to prevent escape which seem to rely on chemically nuking the site if an escape is suspect how they can monitor all these itty bitty creatures on a 24 hour basis is beyond me. No mention of making them sterile or having liitle monitoring tags around their ankles. The winds we have here could blow them miles away from their curfew sites and into the wild. Hell, they will probably get lost when being couriered to their new home.
Some times policies have the words unintended consequences stamped on them. This is one of those times.
I’m sure it’s all thought out. *Cough*
Our scientists are introducing a foreign insect species into the UK ecosystem to combat a foreign plant introduced into the UK ecosystem. The insect is a psyllid called Aphalara itadori.
Even though there are *cough* safeguards in place to prevent escape which seem to rely on chemically nuking the site if an escape is suspect how they can monitor all these itty bitty creatures on a 24 hour basis is beyond me. No mention of making them sterile or having liitle monitoring tags around their ankles. The winds we have here could blow them miles away from their curfew sites and into the wild. Hell, they will probably get lost when being couriered to their new home.
Some times policies have the words unintended consequences stamped on them. This is one of those times.