Wanamaker Nursery, Inc. v. John Deere Risk Prot., Inc.

Christopher H. Steger, UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

With an estimated population of 10 quintillion,1 insects are all around us. Equally at home in cities, forests and fields, they pollinate our plants and compete with us for the food we eat. At times beautiful and benign-at other times annoying, loathsome and destructive-we share with them our homes, workplaces, recreational spaces, and conveyances-in short, our world. By and large, our relationship with our six-legged co-habitants is unwittingly (at least for most of us) symbiotic; however, there are times when humans and insects compete…