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The peaty black soil in the delta made it the top asparagus-growing region in the state and — at one point — the nation.

All I can see are rolling hills and the peaty landscape into which my boots are slowly sinking.

Dr Blackwell said this was because the insects breed in damp, peaty soil which naturally occurs in the western half of the country.

Archeologist Frank Cushing, who led an 1896 expedition that unearthed it from peaty muck in Marco Island, south of Naples, called it the “mountain lion god.”

The smell of burning tyres is caused by the brown coal in the area's peaty soil which is fuelling the fire underground.