“I don’t know, flies?”
“Exactly. We don’t have a big fruit fly issue, and those frogs are probably the reason why. We don’t want to create a problem with fruit flies, so we don’t mess with the frogs.”
“Good point,” agreed Garrett.
I wasn’t an entomologist, but I thought our island’s isolation and lack of a food source for mammal-biting insects was another reason we didn’t have problems with bugs that could have made our lives here miserable.
“I really like these fresh mangoes, but it’s too bad we don’t have a banana tree here,” said Devon. “I love bananas.”
“I wish we had one, too,” I replied. “But for the leaves, not the fruit.”
“You don’t like bananas?” Devon asked.
“Love them. But that’s domesticated bananas. If we had a banana tree here it could only be a wild banana tree, and t
