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

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.


https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-scientists-fight-to-save-iconic-sabra-prickly-pear-from-devastating-pest/?fbclid=IwAR39Z_27uqh8dbXTtBslxYnwmo1JrJ_8rGWOfwKT8I8YfcvuW2rjNUaGuvI


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