First the thatch roofs on the houses of borneo started collapsing.
Roofs collpsing in borneo.
The world health organization used the pesticide ddt to kill the mosquitoes that carry the disease malaria.
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The number of people killed when a restaurant in northern china collapsed has climbed to 29 state media said yesterday with efforts to find survivors brought to a close.
Hijrah samawi 36 said she was sweeping the.
Without the wasps around the caterpillars multiplied and devoured the thatch roofs.
Despite caterpillars we roof beams stayed strong.
What did this have to do with the ddt.
First the thatch roofs on the houses of borneo started collapsing.
Two workers were lucky to escape unscatched after an abandoned canteen block at sekolah kebangsaan sk siol kanan collapsed this afternoon.
Meanwhile the ddt also landed on borneo s cockroaches.
Rumah adat are traditional houses built in any of the vernacular architecture styles of indonesia the traditional houses and settlements of the several hundreds ethnic groups of indonesia are extremely varied and all have their own specific history.
The ddt had killed the wasps that ate the thatch eating caterpillars.
The indigenous people of sarawak and sabah live in each village in long houses with thatched roofing that could house as much as hundred families.
If a man now and then did some roof patching replaced chewed up beams and half eaten thatching we could keep out the wind the rain and the sun and shelter a man when his labors were done.
Brazil india the us and russia accounting for almost 50 of the total cases.
Deaths approaching a million globally 22 million infected and growing.
We re the roof beams of thatched huts in borneo where the farmer enduring bends low bends low.
Borneo mosquitoes were wiped out caterpillars ate grass roofs cats were parachuted in cats caught lizards containing ddt roaches stored ddt in their bodies grass roofs collapse lizards disappeared lizards slowed down rats increased.
If they re big enough to wake up the world but not enough.
The spraying of ddt led to a chain of events such as deterioration of the thatched roofs and collapsing of the roofs which the locals complained about.
The ddt killed the mosquitoes and relieved the malaria problem on borneo but it also caused an undesirable chain reaction on the island.
Southeast asian island of borneo.
Brazil india the us and russia accounting for almost 50 of the total cases in the world i feel it coming a series of disasters created through our diligent yet unconscious efforts.
