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Weed Biocontrol
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To Make a Spotless Orange
An Australian ladybug imported in the 1880s was a remarkable success against scale insects that had ravaged the orange groves of California. Subsequently, entomologists developed both theory and practice of biological control more fully in California than in any other state. In state government agencies, and later in the University of California, the biological control program grew, even as farmers and scientists elsewhere rushed headlong into chemical methods. Author Richard Sawyer shows that biological control thrived in California precisely because its practitioners had close ties to the citrus industry. They aimed to maximize profits by producing cosmetically perfect fruit. Entomologists...
