Seems Globalization Contributes to Invasive Insect Outbreaks.

[Jomo]

Want to get a SoCal property owner's attention?

Tell them there's a new bug in town that just loves eating guacamole trees dead!

Yes, it seems symbiotic relationships between fungus and bugs can devastate a wide range of tree species both indigenous and imported.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/ma...a-threat-to-californias-avocado-crop-20120510
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/Dec/14/environment-shot-hole-borer-beetle-infestation/
https://cisr.ucr.edu/pdf/pest_alert_pshb_and_fd.pdf
https://cisr.ucr.edu/polyphagous_shot_hole_borer.html

Avocados, oaks, sycamores, even stinkin castor bean plants! That the neurotoxin ricin's made from?

I hate getting work this way.....

Jomo

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Yeah, last I read, they did not even have an idea where that little bugger came from. I doubt they had the species figured out either. Damn thing likes about all our trees too.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I see they figured out the home origin and species

 

[Jomo]

I'll bet I could wrap those tree's infrastructure in ground cigarette butts layered burlap wraps, wrap the main wood structure with it, and kill those bugs. Just as I have using carbaryl impregated burlap wraps to kill Ipps beetle infested pines, and western flathead borer infested sycamores, illegally of course. Off label use of a pesticide.

Jomo

 

[Szajer]

Better hope this never gets out to the homeless. We'll be dodging broken bodies strewn about the road, from those who didn't collect the discarded cigarette butts -before the traffic signals went green.