today's blog looks at the threat to Hawai`i's unique forests by non-native insects and diseases, especially the new strain of Ceratocytus fimbriata on `ohi`a trees on the Big Island. This pathogen raises - again! - the problem of managing pests/pathogens that are unknown until they begin to kill.
This blog is posted at www.cisp.us
Another blog on the same
topic, but more focused on the where/when questions, is at http://www.dontmovefirewood.org/blog/new-threat-hawaiian-trees-underscores-need-prevention-spread.html
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