Our friends the dung beetles."Siccing Fungi on Malaria" (SN: 8/13/05, p. 106) says that fungal sprays could kill nontarget non·tar·get adj. Not being the target, as of an agent or weapon: effects of radiotherapy on nontarget cells. insect species, "but most of those species people don't want anyway." That is a flippant flip·pant adj. 1. Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; pert. 2. Archaic Talkative; voluble. [Probably from flip. way to blow off reasonable questions. "Most" means "not all," so some of them people would want. And I would suggest that most people don't want (don't care
"Don't Care" is a 1994 (see 1994 in music) single by American death metal band Obituary. about) worms or flies or dung beetles or the myriad scavengers that keep our world clean and livable. TOM TURNER, NEWPORT, R.I. |
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