600m bees sounds like a huge number by most measures. In any case, it’s interesting how they describe the fall webworm as an ‘American moth plague’. The moths come from North America ranging from Canada to Mexico, but I wonder about the semantic weight of the grouping ‘American moth plague’
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China releases bees to curb American moth plague
Xinhua
Source – China Daily, published August 8, 2011
SHIJIAZHUANG – Forestry authorities in North China’s city of Baoding released 600 million bees this month to kill off American white moths, which have plagued large areas of crops and forests.
White moth infestations have been detected on 20,000 hectares of farmland and forests in the city so far this year, said Duo Jianguo, head of the Baoding forest epidemic prevention stationon Monday.
He said that this year marks the fifth year in a row that authorities have used bees to kill the moths, as they are an effective and environmentally friendly form of pest control.
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