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Avon Maitland District School Board
62 Chalk Street, North
Seaforth, Ontario, NOK MO and
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Municipality of
Huron East
HE-13-02
2002 TENDER
for Grass Cutting in
the Hamlet of Ethel
1. To cut grass and do
trimming at the Grey
Township Fire Hall
2. To cut grass and do
trimming at the Ethel Ball
Diamond and Park Area
Price is to be submitted as
cost per cutting. Grass is to
be cut once every 10 days
or as instructed.
Sealed tenders clearly
marked as to contents will be
received by the undersigned
until 12 Noon on Monday,
May 6th 2002.
John Forrest, Huron East
Public Works Coordinator
72 Main Street South,
Box 610, Seaforth, Ontario
NOK IWO
Phone (519) 527-1710 or
1-888-868-7513 Toll Free
from Brussels and Grey Only
Fax (519) 527-2561
Lowest or any quotation not
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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2002. PAGE 23 .
Classified Advertisements
Several
ideas
discussed
Continued from page 1 •
any real consensus becoming
apparent. Rates for licenses and
permits, daycare rates and a liquor
license for the Seaforth arena all
came up for discussion.
At one point during the evening
Councillor William Teall seemed to
express the general frustration over
the confusing nature of the budget
discussions. "It's like reading cards
at times - what you put in revenue
and put in expenses."
In the end it was suggested that
councillors take a week to digest the
cards they had been given. Time was
set aside during the first part of the
next meeting for another attempt at
hitting the jackpot.
By Bonnie Gropp
Citizen editor
They may be a boon to soybean
growers, but for homeowners the
influx of ladybugs has become
somewhat of a nuisance.
While much has been said of-the
fact that the lady beetles we're
seeing now are not 'real' ladybugs,
according to University of Guelph
Professor of environmental biology
Steve Marshall there 500 species in
North American which are members
of the oneTamily.
"The ones we are seeing now, the
multi-coloured Asian lady beetle
were deliberately introduced into the
United States for the control of
aphids in 1991," said Marshall.
However, there was no permit
ever granted for their release into
Canada.
Through one • way or another
however, the Asian lady beetle found
its way here with the first being
recorded in 1994.
Marshall predicted accurately it
would seem, that the number of
beetles would soon be abundant.
'Last year there was an enormous
population explosion," said
Marshall, a fact that has raised some
concerns.
"Any time you introduce exotic
predators without considering the
impact on native species there is a
concern." Marshall talks of upsetting
bio-diversity and notes that the
spotted lady beetle, which is native
to Ontario, has been eliminated.
Other species are now rare.
What has prompted the growth in
population is quite likely the reason
the lady beetles found their way
here. Information from the Ministry
of Natural Resources states that the
population groWs:iri response to an
increase in their pre ;.
Lady beetles are the most
beneficial of all insects because they
prey upon insects that damage crops
and trees. The preferred food is
aphids and scale insects, of
-which there have been outbreaks
recently. .affecting soybeans and fruit
trees.
The Asian soybean aphids caught
area farmers off guard with their
Arrival in Ontario during the last
growing season They are the only
species to colonize soybeans,
reproducin quickly to create
massive populations, which feed on
plant juices.
This feeding activity deprives the
plant of nutrients. But that is only
one way in which the aphids harm
the soybeans. A flow of plant fluids
onto the leaf supports mold growth
which interferes with
photosynthesis. Also the insects
carry a soybean virus and current
inseticide treatment's have not been a
'practical solution.
The lady beetles, while their
impact is still in the evaluation stage,
offer biological control of the '
aphids.
'I would imagine that for anyone
growing anything that suffers from
aphid damage, the lady beetles are
welcome.
Now that spring is here, however,
homeowners are being invaded .by
the beetles which are awakening
from hibernation. Marshall said the
beetles though generally harmless
will nip, under "unusual
circumstances."
"The lady beetle density is so high
they are everywhere, not only
chewing on an unknown quantity
and diveristy of insects but also, and
abnormally, nipping at the people
they land on."
Also, if squashed the blood causes
discolouring.
Vacuuming is the best way to get
rid of them, Marshall said, "though 1
can't imagine why you would want
to." An altnerative, he suggests is to
find the way they are getting in and
block it.
Lady beetles may help soybean growers
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