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
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