- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: October 25, 2013
Western Farm Press ran a detailed update on efforts at UC Riverside to identify and release natural enemies of Asian citrus psyllid to aid in the fight against the feared citrus pest and the deadly citrus disease huanglongbing it carries in other parts of the U.S. and world.
Writer Todd Fitchette reported that Mark Hoddle, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Entomology at UC Riverside, began releasing the tiny wasp Tamarixia radiata on citrus trees and other plants in Southern California in 2011.
To date more than 160,000 parasitic wasps have...
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