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Calif. Uses Pesticide to Halt Insect10-07-08 | News
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Calif. Uses Pesticide to Halt Insect




California State and federal authorities placed part of southern San Diego County under quarantine in an effort to halt the Asian psyllid?EUR??,,????'?????<

Calif. state agriculture workers in September began treating citrus plants with pesticide along the U.S. Mexico-border near San Diego in an effort to stop a potentially devastating insect from moving north.

Plants infested with the Asian citrus psyllid?EUR??,,????'?????<

While the insect is not considered harmful, it can carry a disease that can cause a tree to produce inedible fruit and eventually kill it.

The treatments used on the plants were the organic compound Pyganic and a soil drench with Merit, an imidicloprid.

Source: mercurynews.com.

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