- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: July 19, 2016
The pistachio industry is funding an effort to control navel orangeworm with sterile moths reared at a USDA facility in Phoenix, reported Annika Cline on KJZZ's The Show.
The same approach was used in a long-running battle with pink bollworms, which used to be the bane of cotton farmers. The story said USDA is checking fields this year before declaring pink bollworm officially eradicated.
Navel orangeworm isn't a serious pest of citrus, as the name might suggest, but it is devastating in tree nut production, said David
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