Wednesday 18 November 2015

Honduran army goes to war against invading bugs

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Honduran army goes to war against invading bugs
Tegucigalpa (AFP) Nov 17, 2015 - For Honduran soldiers fanning out in the pine forest, their chainsaws roaring, the enemy is like no other: numbering in the thousands, invading a sizeable chunk of their country and causing incalculable environmental damage. Their tenacious adversary? A tree-munching bug called Dentroctomus frontalis, more commonly known in North and Central America as the southern pine beetle. It has al ... more


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