That is what Drs. McCracken and Kunz and others are doing, as Ed said,
"proper scientific research to find out the exact answer to this question".
Of course it's science so there will never be an 'exact' answer, but there
will be an answer and we will learn from the research and hopefully a
decrease in the use of harmful pesticides will result.
jules
At 03:26 PM 8/7/2005 -0500, Edward Sevcik wrote:
At 10:47 AM 8/7/2005, Bill Mixon wrote:
All this recent hype about Texas bats eating harmful insects may be
misleading, quite possibly intentionally, because it comes from either
professional chiropterphiles or people seeking grants.
Bill makes a good point, which might be further augmented by the fact that
highway vechicles also kill millions of bugs, but no one seems to think
this provides a benefit to agriculture. The real point is that someone
needs to do proper scientific research to find out the exact answer to
this question. I therefore propose to submit a four million dollar grant
application...
Edward Sevcik
University of Texas School of Information
Austin, Texas
