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...habitat as well. And while the moisture-loving insects can't spread westward through arid reaches of West Texas on their own, they don't have to. Fire ants have been known to hitch rides on truckloads of produce, nursery stock and even industrial chemicals. According to Richard Patterson, a U.S. Department of Agriculture entomologist based at the University of Florida, infestations of fire ants have been found in Arizona, New Mexico, California, Oregon and Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTS IN OUR PANTS | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

Still worried about the pesticides' impact on the environment, government scientists think they may have a better answer to the fire-ant menace. Patterson's lab at the Agriculture Department is studying a tiny parasitic fly that lays its eggs right on the fire ant's body. The fly maggots then eat their way into the ant's head and eventually sever the head from the body. Best of all, the fly seems to attack only fire ants. If laboratory and field tests show that the fly is indeed safe to use, says Patterson, the natural ant killer could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTS IN OUR PANTS | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

DIED. FARLEY, 16, faithful and beloved dog of the Patterson family; of a heart attack triggered by his heroic but strenuous rescue of the family's youngest child, April, from a rain-swollen river; somewhere in Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 22, 1995 | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

...last resolved ROTC issue may seem an unpromising choice, but taking a shot at gays and lesbians is the current popular right-wing issue for such purposes. In that the Republican Club at least shares in irrelevance to genuinely important issues so common to the student right. John Patterson The author is a non-resident tutor at Mather House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC Petition Will Go Unheard | 3/7/1995 | See Source »

Third Period Ver--Stelljes 8 (Hamllton, Thomas) 18:58. (EN) Ver--Ducharme 12 (Patterson...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: Vermont Blanks Slumping Icemen | 2/21/1995 | See Source »

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