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Already, the pest's larvae have eaten through thousands of trees in 15 states and parts of Canada, according to the U.S. Forest Service, and after failing to stem the beetle's spread east, researchers have called in reinforcements.
The Bugs Rescuing the Baseball Bats Mike Sielski 2011
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You don't have to react to everything that comes out of a little pest's mouth.
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As with most things in the garden, a healthy plant in great soil will overtake the pest's ability to devastate it.
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Here it serves as an oily poison delivery system that coats the insect's exoskeleton, helping to get the toxins into the pest's pores.
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Here it serves as an oily poison delivery system that coats the insect's exoskeleton, helping to get the toxins into the pest's pores.
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The idea is that it's environmentally safer to employ a pest's natural predators than to spray pesticide.
War of the Roses: Steve Stecklow 2008
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While growing up I learned all sort's of way's to rid our farm of the pest's.
I hate cats 2005
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Simon Sithole, head of the Agriculture Ministry's plant and protection unit, said an initial consignment of 5,000 liters (1,100 gallons) of chemicals was needed to halt the pest's breeding cycle in Mozambique ahead of seasonal rains due next month.
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Researchers found natural enemies in the pest's South American home, and tested them in Africa.
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Many pest outbreaks (the cassava mealybug in Africa and hundreds more such cases) have occurred when someone carried an infected/infested plant to a new area which lacked the natural predators or controls of the pest's native habitat.
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