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Florida Home Growers of citrus tree get your Tamarixia wasp & fight HLB
Millet:
Florida growers who have a citrus tree in their yard, can get a vial of Tamarixia wasps to release in your tree.
Tamarixia are great killers of citrus psyllid that spreads Greening disease.
http://www.gainesville.com/news/20170801/get-your-wasps-and-join-fight-against-citrus-greening
fyliu:
Nice! I wonder if they've diversified the gene pool of the wasps since they introduced it years ago to fight ACP.
What the UCR people said the FL earlier release was missing was
1. wasps taken from a small geographical area. UCR took samples from a wider range.
2. UCR discovered there were even smaller parasites feeding on the parasitic wasps and cleaned them up before introducing them to California.
Citradia:
The article mentions that 100% of mature citrus trees in FL are infected; that is scary and so tragic.
BajaJohn:
--- Quote from: Citradia on August 03, 2017, 08:03:35 PM ---The article mentions that 100% of mature citrus trees in FL are infected; that is scary and so tragic.
--- End quote ---
Devastating for sure, but there is a glimmer of hope for future citrus. I don't know how you balance risk to current crops and a search for resistant trees, but I hope someone is working on it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/7808445/New-British-tree-resistant-to-Dutch-Elm-Disease.html
Mark in Texas:
Gonna have to be a GMO, which would be great.
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