Wicked Bugs by Amy Stewart

Author:Amy Stewart [Stewart, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2011-05-22T07:00:00+00:00

SIZE:

15 mm

FAMILY:

Rhinotermitidae

HABITAT:

Found underground, in trees, or in attics and crawl spaces of wood structures.

DISTRIBUTION:

Taiwan, China, Japan, Hawaii, South Africa, Sri Lanka, southeastern United States

Unfortunately, five years later, Hurricane Katrina proved him right. The most devastating natural disaster in U.S. history killed 1,833 people; it also displaced three-quarters of a million more, making it responsible for the largest mass migration since the Dust Bowl. When the damages were finally tallied, they reached almost $100 billion. And as New Orleans started to rebuild, it became clear that the pest that has plagued this city for decades may have played a role in its destruction. The seams of the flood-walls that were supposed to protect the city were made of sugarcane waste, a treat that Formosan termites cannot resist.

Could any of this have been prevented? Seventeen years before Katrina, the Formosan termite lost its most dedicated foe. Jeffery LaFage, a Louisiana State University AgCenter entomologist, was out for dinner in the French Quarter in 1989 to celebrate the start of his new program to eliminate termites from the Quarter. As he walked through the Quarter with a friend after dinner, a robber approached them both and shot and killed Jeffery. His death set termite control in the area back by years.

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