Never did God devise such a critter <br />One that creates, like man, a disaster <br />For the cricket for all its life <br />Mines the soil and causes strife. <br /> <br />Ugly is too kind a word <br />For this one of the under world <br />That feeds on roots and all <br />Destroying life in the virgin soil. <br /> <br />But the cricket will meet its fate <br />For there are pesticides developed of late <br />That will end its burrowing neath the surface <br />And end its life on the global place. <br /> <br />Yet there is a better solution to be found <br />For there are nematodes in the ground <br />That enter into the wicked insect and - <br />Bring a cadre of bacteria to the fiend. <br /> <br />Soon the cricket will die, which is an insects fate <br />And the nematode will reproduce before its too late, <br />Releasing yet another family of juveniles <br />Who destroy crickets around for miles and miles. <br /> <br />s<br /><br />Sidi J. Mahtrow<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mole-crickets/
