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KEENE VALLEY — The Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program has added a new biological control option to its toolbox for managing invasive forest pests. Bio

USDA Plant Protection and Quarantine Program To date, about 125 million sterilized moths have been dropped on California orchards to disrupt the navel orangeworm. To date, some 125 million moths have been produced in the five-year-old project. Like tiny winged warriors descending from the sky to fight the dreaded navel orangeworm, the USDA’s Plant Protection and Quarantine program is developing its own army by propagating sterile moths by the millions. “The Sterile...