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Thursday • April 18,l)| __
news
BRIEFS
Wasps vs Roadie
A&M may have found perfect extermimk
By Michelle Lyons
The Battalion
Services held for
A&M student
Bonnie Clare Richards, a Texas
A&M senior education major, died
last week from injuries suffered in a
car accident at FM 2818 and Welsh
Avenue.
Richards, of Wimberley, Texas,
was a fourth-generation Aggie. She
worked at the Brazos Valley Muse
um of Natural History in Bryan.
Services were held for Richards
Monday in Wimberley.
Library 4th floor gets
water damaged
The fourth floor of Texas A&M's
Sterling C. Evans Library was dam
aged between the hours of 8 p.m.
Tuesday and 6 a.m. Wednesday.
The fourth-floor ceiling, light
fixtures and some books were dam
aged by flooding, the cause of
which has not been determined.
Library officials said the dam
aged area of the fourth floor,
which was closed yesterday,
should be accessible to students
by this afternoon.
No indictment for
Unabomber yet
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A
federal grand jury concluded a one-
day session here Wednesday with
out indicting the Montana back-
woods hermit suspected of being
the Unabomber.
The panel was not scheduled to
meet again until mid-May, accord
ing to U.S. Marshal Bill Strizich, who
provides security for the grand jury.
Researchers in the Texas A&M
Urban Entomology Lab are exam
ining a possible method of cock
roach extermination — wasps.
The three species of wasps be
ing studied originate in India
and are ant-like, measuring 1
mm to 3 mm.
They feed on roach eggs, and
research has proven that
they significantly
the wasp larvae feed on tk
veloping roach eggs.
But because the wasps
lower roach
p o p u 1 a -
tions in
lab set
tings.
The
Anastatus
t e n i u p e s
and the Compe-
ria merceti control the
Brown-banded cockroach, and
the Aprostocetus hagenowii con
trol American, Smoky Brown
and Oriental cockroaches.
The wasps have stingers
that they use only when laying
their eggs. They do not store
poison and do not pose a threat
to humans.
Dr. Barry M. Pawson, an as
sistant research scientist, said
there are five species of roaches
in Texas. Two species live in
doors, and two live outdoors but
journey inside in search of food
or during bad weather.
Roaches retreat to corners
and other hiding places, where
they lay their eggs in nests
called oothecas.
The tiny wasps come into
play because of their ability to
smell and search out the oothe
cas, inside of which they lay
their own eggs.
When the wasp eggs hatch,
only the eggs, other means®
be found to exterminate road
that have progressed toll
nymph or adult stage.
To test the wasps’ roach)
trolling abilities, lab-gener
oothecas were hiddenin
A&M lab and clusters of
were released. The wasps fc
90 percent of the oothecas.
Pawson said experiments
being done to detemii
the number
wasps neeii
to find 100 p
cent of t
nests.
Dr. Roger
Gold, an enta:
ogy professor, si
a problem willi
i mplementat*
wasp-control
the
search will be overcoming pa
pie’s perceptions of wasps.
Gold said that when re;
are mentioned, most peip
think of the large, stingingij
that fly outdoors. Butthewjsj
in the lab are tiny —somei
larger than a flea.
He said that many people,
their haste to be rid of roads
use insecticides and pesticides
exterminate them. Butsoi
people have multiple-che*
sensitivities, also knownasen
ronmental illness, and cam
tolerate chemical pesticids
Gold said these people wouldi
perience no side effects fromli
wasp method of control.
The wasp method would
beneficial in hospital clinics
animal-holding facilities,
said, because these areplf
where chemicals could do hr
Minimum wage hike unveito
Two increases of 50 cents an hour
WASHINGTON (AP) — Moderate House Re
publicans broke ranks and joined Democrats call
ing for an election-year increase in the minimum
wage, a vote Sen. Bob Dole and other GOP leaders
have tried to prevent.
House Majority Leader Dick Armey said through
an aide that he had no plans to schedule the bill for
the floor. But with Democrats also clamoring for a
vote on a daily basis, other lawmakers and aides in
the GOP leadership said the issue was virtually cer
tain to reach the floor of the House, and conceded it
may have enough support to pass.
“All of us believe that people who work a 40-
hour work week ought to earn a wage they can live
on,’’ said Rep. Jack Quinn, R-N.Y., as he and 13
fellow Republicans unveiled their bill Wednesday.
The proposal would provide for two separate in
creases of 50 cents an hour, one to take effect 90
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days after the bill is signed by President Clii
and the second boost a year after that.
But even as Quinn and other Republicans wi
holding their news conference, Speaker NewtG:
grich and the GOP leadership were backpedalitg
the subject.
Gingrich noted during the day thatheti
supported a 1989 measure that raised the ni
mum wage and included a sub-minimum te
ing wage for younger workers. Asked wheli
the issue would come to a vote this year,C
grich said, “I don’t know.”
Dole also sidestepped a question, sayi;
don’t know of any” when asked if a possible®
promise was in the works.
The minimum wage was raised to itsciinef
level on April 1, 1991, from $3.80 an hour.St
porters of an increase say that when inflatim
taken into account, the minimum wage wills 1
be at a 40-year low unless it is raised.
7 ;
6th Annual
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