Friday, 27 December 2013

Bugs cut Florida orange crop

A gnat-sized insect, the Asian citrus psyllid, forced Dean Mixon to replace about 1,000 orange trees in the past two years on the 50-acre Florida farm his grandfather started in the 1930s. The bug spreads a disease called citrus greening, causing fruit to shrink and drop early, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. “This is the […]



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