Bugs Free For The Picking

“If you’ve ever seen fleas on a dog, how they jump and go crazy – that’s how these things move” – Nancy Gray, Iaps Co-Ordinator For Eastern Saskatchewan The best things in life are free, they say. That includes leafy spurge beetles. A bug net, a paper bag, a cooler and some ice packs are

Environmental Regulations Squeeze Spanish Hog Farmers

“It was a successful model. It seemed like everybody was winning.” – VICTORIA SOLDEVILA Large-scale hog farming worked wonders for the Catalonian economy – for a while. Economically depressed for decades by a long civil war and later the rule of fascist dictator Francisco Franco, the Spanish autonomous territory bordered by France on one side


More help needed to control spurge

“We’re just on our own. There’s other weed districts around but they’ve got all they can handle.” BOB BROWN, DEPUTY REEVE, R. M. OF CORNWALLIS Municipal leaders want the provincial government to step up aid for local government’s trying to control the spread of leafy spurge, a voracious noxious weed now said to be infesting