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Beetle infestation threatening date palms
Tel Aviv :: Israel | 10 hours ago
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Date palms in cities throughout Israel have fallen prey to a beetle that eats away at the tree trunk and could cause them to fall over this summer, endangering pedestrians, the Agriculture Ministry has warned. The ministry called on the public to
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Summit being held on beetle-killed trees
Golden :: CO :: USA | 2 days ago
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Colo.Business leaders and elected officials are meeting to discuss efforts to deal with beetle-killed pine trees in Colorado. The meeting in Golden on Monday will also recognize successes in dealing with the devastation caused by beetles, including
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Southern Colorado bracing for beetle damage
Pueblo :: CO :: USA | 7 days ago
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A spruce beetle infestation that has killed about 380,000 acres of trees on the Rio Grande National Forest is expected to cause quick runoffs from snowpack this year. Rio Grande supervisor Dan Dallas said Tuesday the beetles have chewed through
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Roadside poisonings deserve more study
Flagstaff :: AZ :: USA | 1 month ago
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Arizona Daily Sun 6 minutes ago To the editor: Why, indeed, are we standing by as our ponderosa pine forest is poisoned? A November 2006 Daily Sun article began this way: "Coconino County is planning to begin spreading salt on Townsend-Winona Road
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Mountain Pine Manufacturing to ramp up production of wood mulch from beetle-killed trees
Steamboat Springs :: CO :: USA | 1 month ago
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Trent Jones, of Mountain Pine Manufacturing, creates wood strand mulch that will be used as erosion control...The company turns beetle-killed pines into wood strand mulch. Steamboat Springs It's been about two years since Trent Jones first
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Scientists struggling to name new constellation of beetle species finally have a Eureka moment ... in the Papua New Guinea phone book
Munich :: Germany | 1 month ago
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30 March 2013 Faced with 101 new beetle species that needed naming, biologists turned to the phone book for inspiration. German scientists who were struggling to name all the new weevil species in Papua New Guinea they reached for the phone book.
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The amateur naturalists discovering new species
Monte Carlo :: Monaco | 3 months ago
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Everyone knows there are lots of species yet to be discovered in rainforests and remote parts of the world...Lemaire is a retired mathematician from south-east France with a passion for beetles...He has hunted them down by exploring caves and
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Green Blog: After a Die-Off, Small Trees Protect Watershed
Boulder :: CO :: USA | 4 months ago
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29 pm Josh Haner/The New York Times The red and brownish tones of this forest, photographed in 2011, reflect the advance of the mountain pine beetle. It doesn't take an expert to understand that logging and violent storms cause massive damage to
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Injections could save some trees in beetle-infested areas
Columbus :: OH :: USA | 4 months ago
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A new proposal by the government to fight the Asian longhorned beetle in southwestern Ohio could allow homeowners to save some of their trees...Department of Agriculture officials yesterday proposed pesticide injections for some healthy trees in
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Study: Beetle kill's effect on water different than logging, flooding
Mexico City :: Mexico | 4 months ago
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The news on pine beetle outbreaks is not necessarily all bad, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Colorado. Professor William Lewis, interim director of CU's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, is
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