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Israeli scientists fight to save iconic Sabra prickly pear from devastating pest

  • Volcani International Partnerships
  • Aug 8, 2019
  • 1 min read

A team working under entomologist Prof. Zvika Mendel at the Volcani Center Agricultural Research Organization has been dispatching armies of predatory beetles and flies to devour a destructive scale insect, Dactylopius opuntiae.



 
 
 

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