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Beetle Busters: Insect Army Battles to Save Turkey's Northern Forests

from Daily Sabah, July 13, 2020

Beetle Busters: Insect Army Battles to Save Turkey's Northern Forests Daily Sabah, July 13, 2020 A tiny beetle army is being assembled to rescue Turkey's northern forests from deadly pests. Turkish scientists in the Black Sea province of Zonguldak are producing 12,500 ant beetles (Thanasimus formicarius), also known as European red-bellied clerids — a natural predator of the voracious bark beetles. Ant beetles do not pose any harm to their natural environments and are released annually into forested areas that are particularly threatened by bark beetles — specifically in Turkey's Black Sea provinces of Bartın, Karabük and Zonguldak. READ MORE

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