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BUG TRAPS BEHIND OLMSTED
Victoria Cuscino
Everyone gazed curiously at the bags
on-sticks behind Olmsted for the first 2
weeks of school and wanted to know
what purpose the structures served. So
the Cap Times did some investigative
reporting and asked "What are these
structures?", "What purpose do they
serve?" and "How do they work?" The
best place to learn answers to student
concerns is to ask SGA, right?
"Ask the engineering department,"
said Andy Hilt, SGA president.
Ok...sounds like a good lead.
Ron Heggs, SDCET major: "a
bag for getting rid of skunks. A skunk
approaches it and there's an odor that
skunks can't take. And once he smells it,
he goes away."
Charles Wall, SDCET major:
"It looks like a stick with a bag on it...a
light maybe."
Tom Roginski, EET major:
"Looks like a big McDonald's bag
growing mold specimens?
Tim Marsh, MET major:
"Looks like more of the sculptures
leftover from Earth Day."
Well, what about other departments?
Dan Smelas, criminal justice
major: "specimen from the dining hall
used as a laboratory experiment."
Senta Smite, public policy
major: "a bird dropping cathcher."
Huan Nguyen, humanities/
business major: "a device to tell
which way the wind is blowing...either
that or Maintenance put them up to use
as a slalom course when they cut the
grass."
Donna Sumner, humanities/
business major: "a sculpture in
the sculpture garden."
Well, back to SGA.
"They're Japanese beetle traps," said
Amy Killeen, Humanities Senator.
After some persuasion our president
agreed to explain how a bag-on-a-stick
traps the beetles.
"(The bag) sends a phermone that
makes them (beetles) sexually excited.
They come and dive in...fall into the
water and drown."
You're close, Andy!
Clarence Hardaway of Maintenance
explained the reason for the bags-on
sticks decorating the back lawn. The
bags are Japanese beetle traps that
contain sex phermones.
"Japanese beetles feed off over 300
plants in the area," said Hardaway.
The reason for the traps is to "control
them and keep our garden
beautiful...keep them from feeding on
our foilage," Hardaway said. The
Japanese beetle only has a life span of 4-
6 weeks--usually between July and
August--so the bags only remain on the
lawn during those times. This is why
students may not have seen the bag-on
sticks in past years. Maintenance
removes the structures when the beetles'
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