Citrus growers import wasp to fight disease threatening groves

Sunday, August 4, 2013 - 08:00 in Biology & Nature

California citrus farmers import a parasitic wasp from Pakistan to battle citrus greening, a disease threatening their groves.Pesticides haven't worked. Quarantines have been useless. Now California citrus farmers have hired an assassin to knock off the intruder threatening their orchards.

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