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The Florida Panther Society, Inc.
Social Behavior: Panthers are primarily solitary animals, they do not mate for life or live ...
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U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
Other attempts Even widely distributed pest species have been eradicated. For example, the citrus canker, a bacterium, arrived in the Gulf states around 1910. By 1914 it had ... beetle to control the Australian cottony-cushion scale--a bug that was then devastating California citrus groves. Some introduced pest plants can also be controlled at acceptable levels by introduced natural enemies ...
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Bacillus Thuringiensis
In one experiment conducted in Japan, B.t. persisted for two years in a citrus orchard and remained toxic to caterpillars.52 Water B.t.k. has been recovered from ... and K. U. 1990. A field study of the persisting effect of Bacillus thuringiensis In citrus groves. Chinese J. Biological Control 6(3):131-133. 53. Menon, A.S. and J. De ...
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Fluoride Pollution from the Phosphate Industry in Polk County, Florida
Between 1953 and 1964, however, an estimated 150,000 acres of cattle land were abandoned, and 25,000 acres of citrus groves ... phosphate-processing plants near the grazing lands and citrus groves. Almost 75 percent of the nation's ... forage land and the citrus groves, where they are deposited and absorbed. In the citrus groves, the entry of ...
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National Geographic Adventure Magazine: September/October '01
Mulhacén, the country's tallest. The terrain drops from jagged heights to forested gorges and citrus groves; on the sierra's lower slopes is the little-visited Alpujarras region, which has a ...
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Newsroom for the Endangered Florida Panther
Collier County and development credits to reward Collier landowners who preserve citrus groves and farms. Photo: DAVID ALBERS / Staff Tom Jones, with the Barron Collier Partnership, ... Growers Ltd., Collier Enterprises, Sunniland Family Limited Partnership, Barron Collier Partnership and Consolidated Citrus. On the environmental side, Audubon of Florida, the Collier County Audubon Society, ...
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UC IPM: UC Management Guidelines for Anthracnose on Avocado
COMMENTS ON THE DISEASE Colletotrichum gloeosporioides is widespread in avocado and citrus groves. It normally is of little importance because unusually large numbers of spores ... Market fruit rapidly. Chemical Control Anthracnose is rarely significant enough in California avocado groves to warrant fungicide application. Copper compounds thoroughly sprayed on healthy tissue can prevent ...
www.ipm.ucdavis.edu


Environment News Service News Index February 2004
Revive Energy Bill Australian Greenpeacers Arrested Blocking Woodchip Export Iraq War Lets Pests Rampage Through Citrus, Date Groves AmeriScan: February 16, 2004 Human Actions Threaten All Ocean Life, Scientists Warn Senate Bypasses ...
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Growing Diversity | www.grain.org/gd/
Cultivation of fruit crops (citrus) and market garden produce (potato, dried vegetables) are generally irrigated ... more than a thousand varieties of date palm selected from the palm groves of the Maghreb have been recorded.  Yet, under ... of new areas is carried out to the detriment of old palm groves which are richer in native genetic resources.  On the ...
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What is a Weed?
During the 1990 frost, weed scientists predicted that organic citrus and avocado groves would be damaged worse because the groud cover would raise the frostline. Instead, the ...
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