Dear Editor
What a gift – the city is going to make a few hundred doses of nematodes available to the first in line.
The chafers are flying early this year – I can see them hovering over my boulevard. They tend to love open, uncovered areas, and our public boulevards are the perfect host for them. So when the city offers to subsidize a few hundred doses of nematodes, they are hoping that you are going to apply them to public land because, if you apply them only to your property, you are setting the scene for continued procreation of next seasons turf tossing, war zone, skunk rooting, crow digging ad infinitum future crop of chafers.
If the city would take a small portion of its surplus and devote it to real research of the chafer problem I expect that we would see some improvement, but until they do you can expect to see continued massacred lawns all over Burnaby and beyond. Excuse me while I chafe when paying my huge property tax bill knowing that the city is likely to spend it on something frivolous or gift it to elitist sports groups. Oh, I have just ordered enough nematodes to nuke my lawn and the nearby boulevard on two sides of our property. Maybe the city would like to give us a tax credit for doing their job?
Patrick Gillan, Burnaby
