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Summarizing our social media posts this week Laurel wilt remains serious threat This photo illustrates laurel wilt symptoms. Media reports that laurel wilt disease is killing swamp bay trees in the...
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National Farmers Market Week, spiders generate traffic on our website, emerald ash borer is spreading and bug-food advocates want you to eat crickets. An apt, one-word description of our social media...
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Might Dogs and Drones Be The Answer to Ambrosia Beetle?
In just a few weeks, redbay ambrosia beetles will be on the move in Florida, a major concern for the state’s multimillion dollar avocado industry. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer...
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Saving the Guac, bolstering beekeeping, capturing coneheads . . . just a few of the alliterative activities our social media team highlighted this week. Save the Guac campaign takes center stage The...
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Serious news about invasive flies, noodling by our apiarist about the value of a single bee and some answers to the burning question, “What month is this, anyhow?” Two fruit flies can be expensive...
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Today, let’s think about pollinators. We depend on them for our food and fiber. And they need our help. It’s National Pollinator Week Our Apiary chief, David Westervelt, happened to mention to us that,...
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Happy Independence Day
DO have great holiday . . . but Save the Guac, Don’t Pack a Pest and Don’t Move Firewood. The Independence Day weekend is one of the year’s most festive and we hope everyone will join family and...
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A quick summary of the week’s social media activities by the FDACS Division of Plant Industry Get the bad stuff out of your shed This week, we remind agricultural producers and others that Florida has...
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Sometimes we think of DPI Diary as a tasty fruit salad of information that’s just too juicy to pass up. (And sometimes we pass along recipes for actual salad.) Think before you bring ag products into...
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Puzzling over Poetry Day Thursday was National Poetry Day and we found an entomological connection in what we thought might be the shortest poem in the English languace: “Adam had ’em.” It’s attributed...
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