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Article: BUG BATTLE DESIGNED TO WIPE OUT APHID POPULATION.(NEWS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- July 11, 1998
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Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Daily News Staff Writer
It's a bug-eat-bug world out there - and that's a good thing if you're near an ash tree whose tender young leaves are being devoured by pesky white flies and woolly aphids.
Santa Clarita city arborist Omar Davis is in the midst of a four-week battle to eradicate the pests. His weapon? About 100,000 lacewings - delicate green-winged good bugs and their larvae that make a feast of the bad bugs.
On Friday, Davis let loose hundreds of the lacewings and their eggs in the ash trees outside the city's field services office on Rye Canyon Road. The flies and aphids had created a white haze there, ...