Gauging bats as protectors of walnut trees
Katherine Ingram, a doctoral student at UC-Davis, “is exploring the role bats can play as winged soldiers in the battle against a nonnative pest,” the codling moth, which attacks California’s $2 billion-a-year walnut crop, says Ensia. Some farms lose up to 10 percent of their crop to the codling moth and pesticides are an expensive… » Read More
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