Re: K-T Theories

[jimf@vangelis.ncrmicro.ncr.com (Jim Foley)]

>>>>> On Tue, 31 Jan 1995 17:09:33 -0500, dennisb@test490.pac.sc.ti.com
>>>>> (Dennis Burke) said:

>> They also discussed the introduction of a particular cactus which is
>> still out of control in Australia.  I believe it was the pear cactus.
>> And, they showed periodic population explosions of some sort of rodent.
>> All of these were fascinating.

I don't know what this would be.  Prickly pear used to be a menace, but
was bought under control by the Cactoblastis (I think) moth.  As a
result, there is, somewhere in Oz, what is probably the world's only
monument to a moth.

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