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The Importance of Naturally-Occurring Biological Control in the Western United States

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Biological Control

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Sweet are the fruits of adversity—for from a patch of forest defoliated perhaps once in a century, to the yearly attacks of bolls by borers in manicured cotton fields, we find tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones and good in everything, for the defoliated forests and rotten bolls tell a story of disrupted nature. To paraphrase Shakespeare here would be appropriate, for it was in “As You Like It” that Shakespeare reflected on nature and saw beauty and reason in what appeared ugly. Indeed, defoliated trees and rods of rotten bolls are unpleasant sights, but such products of insect outbreaks tell a story of disturbance, be it natural or man made. We also are made much aware of the potential destructiveness of unleashed phytophagous insect populations.

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