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Fighting Pest, Farmers Find Strange Ally: A Drought
2013-09-01 00:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Texas drought has left crops parched across the state, but the lack of water could have unintended benefits for South Texas farmers in one of the states longest-running agricultural battles. For the past two decades, the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation has conducted a program to eliminate the ubiquitous beetle, which punctures cotton pods to lay eggs that destroy the plants yield. By setting pheromone traps to detect weevils, spraying chemicals to eliminate them and changing farming...
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