The bugs are back with a biting vengeance

[blessedayers]

ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS - By DOUG O'HARRA - June 12, 2005 - <br>
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They buzz and bite and swarm. They drive people indoors, torment gardeners, stampede the tourists. <br>
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It's the Incredible Return of the Bugs, sequel to last spring's fierce hatch, and many people say they've never been pricked and pestered with such vengeance. <br>
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We're talking jillions here: mosquitoes, aphids, dragonflies, midges, gnats, hornets, beetles and assorted creepy-crawlies with all those weird Latin names.<br>
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But then, don't we always say that?<br>
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"I wouldn't get into a panic, thinking, 'Oh my god! Something has happened in the environment that's going to overwhelm us!' " said Fred Sorensen, coordinator of integrated pest management for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service in Anchorage. "Or that they're getting more aggressive. It's not like they've turned feral. They are already. It's just that there are a lot more out there."<br>
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No one keeps statistics; there's no "bug index." But many people insist they've never seen the like. Walk through the brush, and you get aphid dandruff. Mosquitoes battle all attempts to plant, weed and prune.<br>
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It feels like war, and by most accounts the bugs, especially mosquitoes, have won.<br>
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"They're horrendous," said Matanuska-Susitna resident Bea Adler. "When you're in an area that's got no relief in the form of concrete or pavement, and it's just greenery, you are food. ... I spray myself down with bug repellent and go outside and start, and as soon as I disturb some dirt they're on me."...<br>
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Outdoor workers may have it worst of all. <br>
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"There's pretty much a black cloud around as you walk -- they're everywhere," said Mike Wintch, who maintains trails and campgrounds at Nancy Lake State Recreation Area. <br>
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"We're loading on the DEET and wearing head nets and wearing gloves. Campers that are coming up, they aren't even getting out of their RVs. ... We had two trail volunteers come up and quit after two days because they couldn't take the bugs another day."...<br>
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"We have come to a turning-point in the road. If we turn to the right, mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word."<br>
Charles Spurgeon <br>
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1Co 13:4-7 Love is always patient,Love is always kind,Love is never envious Or vaunted up with pride. Nor is she conceited, <br>
And never is she rude, Never does she think of self Or ever get annoyed. She never is resentful, <br>
Is never glad with sin, But always glad to side with truth, Whene'er the truth should win. <br>
She bears up under everything, Believes the best in all, There is no limit to her hope, And never will she fall. <br>
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[mabell28]

This is kind of weird to hear. I was up where I grew up. I grew up with clouds of deerflies that would swarm....yet this time, I got bit more than I ever did as a kid.<br>
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With warmer temps,,,the bug population will increase.<br>
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ick,<br>
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mabell28 <p></p><i></i>

[Roger Craft]

Isn't PESTILENCE a sign? All I know about my own area is that we have an ANT population that is unbelievably scary! I have never seen ants with wings until I moved to where I am now unless they were termites but the termite man assures me these are just a weird cross breed of ants! Haven't seen them flying yet............<br>
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Roger <br>
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"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." Ephesians 6:10-11<br>
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"And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will." 2 Timothy 2:24-26</p><i></i>

[Be still]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>"I wouldn't get into a panic, thinking, 'Oh my god! Something has happened in the environment that's going to overwhelm us!' " <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>
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Maybe he should rethink that. <p><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:maroon;">"Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth." Psalm 46:10</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></p><i></i>

[blessedayers]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Isn't PESTILENCE a sign?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>
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Yes Roger it can be considered a sign...in the sense that it can destroy food crops....causing famine and disease.<br>
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See blessings and cursings in Deut. 28 as to the reasons for such a thing.<br>
Deu 28:21 <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The LORD will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until He have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest in to possess it.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br>
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Rev 6:8 <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>And I saw, and behold, a pale green horse, and the name of the one sitting on it was Death; and Hades followed after him. And authority was given to them to kill over the fourth of the earth with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild beasts of the earth.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br>
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Yet even so.....if the Lord is our Shepherd....we shall not want<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :praise --><img src=http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/23/23_13_22.gif ALT=":praise"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br>
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<!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:teal;font-family:georgia;font-size:small;">Psa 91:1 O thou that dwellest in the covert of the Most High, and abidest in the shadow of the Almighty; <br>
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Psa 91:2 I will say of the LORD, who is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust, <br>
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Psa 91:3 That He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. <br>
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Psa 91:4 He will cover thee with His pinions, and under His wings shalt thou take refuge; His truth is a shield and a buckler. <br>
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Psa 91:5 Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flieth by day; <br>
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Psa 91:6 Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday. <br>
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Psa 91:7 A thousand may fall at Thy side, and ten thousand at Thy right hand; it shall not come nigh thee. <br>
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Psa 91:8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the recompense of the wicked. <br>
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Psa 91:9 For thou hast made the LORD who is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation. <br>
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Psa 91:10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent. <br>
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Psa 91:11 For He will give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. <br>
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Psa 91:12 They shall bear thee upon their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. <br>
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Psa 91:13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and asp; the young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under feet. <br>
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Psa 91:14 'Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known My name. <br>
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Psa 91:15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him, and bring him to honour. <br>
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Psa 91:16 With long life will I satisfy him, and make Him to behold My salvation.'</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--> <p><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:purple;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>
<!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:teal;">"Seek ye out of the book of the LORD,and read: no one of these shall fail...Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure things old and new...Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.” Isa.34:16a, Matt.13:52, 2Tim 4:2<br>
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"We have come to a turning-point in the road. If we turn to the right, mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word."<br>
Charles Spurgeon <br>
<br>
<br>
1Co 13:4-7 Love is always patient,Love is always kind,Love is never envious Or vaunted up with pride. Nor is she conceited, <br>
And never is she rude, Never does she think of self Or ever get annoyed. She never is resentful, <br>
Is never glad with sin, But always glad to side with truth, Whene'er the truth should win. <br>
She bears up under everything, Believes the best in all, There is no limit to her hope, And never will she fall. <br>
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<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:purple;">Jody ***Psalms 119***</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> </p><i></i>