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Incursion of non-native fruit flies requires $129M in emergency funding
invasive fruit flies from Mexico and Guatemala. Citing an "unprecedented outbreak" of insect damage to fruit and vegetable crops in California and Texas, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has ...
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Big Money Going To Help Contain Exotic Fruit Fly Outbreaks
USDA secures $129.2 million in emergency funds to deter fruit flies -- some of the most destructive fruit and vegetable pests ...
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Incursion of non-native fruit flies requires $129M in emergency funding
invasive fruit flies from Mexico and Guatemala. Citing an "unprecedented outbreak" of insect damage to fruit and vegetable crops California and Texas, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has ...
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The Equinox on Orchard Street
Think of a seashell. Don’t think of a conch. In fact, forget, for now, about univalve mollusks entirely. Think of Shell, the ...
What are the rules for bringing fruits and veggies into California? We asked a border expert
The signs read “Welcome to California” and “Agricultural Inspection, All Vehicles Prepare to Stop.” Along California’s borders with Oregon, Nevada and Arizona, border protection stations run by the ...
2 Orange County cities beef up street food enforcement
Buena Park granted impounding authority to its code officers while Anaheim hired private contractors, all in an effort to ...
Looking between cells: Light microscopy probe provides unprecedented view of extracellular matrix
Before arriving at Janelia three years ago, Postdoctoral Scientist Antonio Fiore was designing and building optical ...
Octopuses Have a Secret Sex Chromosome – and It’s Older Than Dinosaurs
New research at the UO reveals that they have been using one that has existed for 480 million years. The octopus has just ...
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Sex chromosome discovered in octopuses is 480 million years old
Scientists at University of Oregon discover one of the oldest known animal sex chromosomes in California two-spot octopus.