Three weeks before the postman caterpillar turns into an adult, it eats 25,000 times its own body weight in passion flower leaves.
Canadian farmers get soaked
Canadian farmers get soaked The weather spoiled crop production for farmers
again this year, says a report by Statistics Canada. Wet weather in
Ontarion and Quebec kept farmers from planting and maturing
corn,and drought spoiled yields in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Corn
and spring wheat production was down, but durum production in
Western Canada was suprisingly at near record levels. OCTOBER 7, 2000