The Dragon HuntersFirst victory: The cottony-cushion scale and the ladybug -- Learning from the past: Time and the citrus whitefly -- Nature's maze: The whitefly and the aggravating ant -- The dreaded gypsies: Attacking the forest killers -- The dreaded gypsies: Concocting a lethal cocktail -- Deadly cargo: The battle against the cereal leaf beetle -- The laboratory: The collapse of the cereal leaf beetle -- The parasite hunter and the ice plant scale -- The devastating screwworm: The Florida strategy -- The devastating screwworm: The Texas solution -- The California red scale and its puzzling parasites -- The alfalfa leaf miner: The French connection -- The alfalfa weevil: The six-pak solution -- Microbials: Attacking the spruce budworm -- Plant pests: The water hyacinth and the South -- A plague of locusts: The search for nature's solutions -- The cotton conundrum: The implacable boll weevil -- The cotton connection: The teamwork strategy of integrated pest management -- The cotton conservators: The integrated pest management success in Texas -- Politics versus progress: The learning curve in California -- Coexistence at home: Our fields, our farms, your own backyard. |
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