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Insect pests more plentiful in hotter parts of city than in cooler areas

2013-03-28 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Higher temperatures in cities can be a key driver of insect pest outbreaks on trees in urban areas, according to research published March 27 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Emily Meineke from North Carolina State University and colleagues from other institutions. The researchers found that a scale insect that exclusively feeds on oak trees was 13 times more abundant on willow oaks in the hottest parts of the city of Raleigh, North Carolina than in cooler areas of the same city, even when...

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