Article: Beverly Hills goes "buggy" over program. (Beverly Hills Recreation and Parks Department, California; Beneficial Insect Program)

The Beverly Hills Recreation and Parks Department's Urban Forest Division has chosen to implement a carefully manipulated Beneficial insect Program in lieu of any type of spraying or injections to trees.

For the past three years, the Recreation and Parks Department of the City of Beverly Hills, California, has effectively executed its Beneficial Insect Program as part of its overall Integrated Pest Management Program. Through the program, beneficial insects that are released appropriately feed on the unwanted infestation of aphids that inhabit the city's Arizona ash, American elm, and tulip trees and create a detriment to these trees and to the community.

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