Re: E-M:/ Insect Invasion at Comerica Park

["Tom & Anne Woiwode" <woiwode@voyager.net>]

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Enviro-Mich message from "Tom & Anne Woiwode" <woiwode@voyager.net>
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While I can't speak to everything that occupied the site, one institution 
that used to occupy the Comerica Park site is the Detroit College of Law.
Could there be a connection?

(for the record, I'm a DCL grad)

Tom
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Tom, Anne, Nate and Pete Woiwode
5088 Powell Road
Okemos, MI 48864

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>Subject: Re: E-M:/ Insect Invasion at Comerica Park
>Date: Thu, Aug 24, 2000, 8:47 AM
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> I'm not an entomologist.  I'm not even from Detroit.  So I'm not sure what
> stood (if anything) where Comerica Park stands now.  But since this is the
> first year Comerica Park has been in use, I would have to wonder if the
> swarm of insects is a natural pattern that has existed for a very long
> time.  And no one has noticed it until now because humans have only just
> taken over the habitat that these insects originally occupied.
>
> I find it amusing - and sad - that when humans invade another's home that
> the original inhabitants are viewed as the pests.  You can bet that the
> response will be an exterminator who will introduce toxic pesticides into
> the environment - which will inevitably harm some people as a result.  It
> appears to be another example of how mindless exploitation hurts everyone -
> baseball players, fans, vendors, the people affected by the pesticides, not
> to mention the insects - who really are the bystanders that happened to get
> in the way.
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> We should also be asking what happened to the creatures that use these
> insects as a food source.  Where are they?  I see dominoes falling all over
> the place.
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> Maybe we need to take a deeper look at the environmental consequences of
> building something before we build it?
>
> Mark Whitt
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