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Sydney Ross Singer commented on Sydney Ross Singer's blog post 'The Value of Strawberry Guava'

EVERYBODY! Go to www.biodamage.com for a discussion of the value of your strawberry guava trees. The government will have to pay for damages, and a mature strawberry guava tree is worth thousands of dollars each! By the way, the agency wanting to r…

April 14, 2009

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The Value of Strawberry Guava

April 8, 2009

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April 8, 2009

Sydney Ross Singer commented on Clayton-Hoyt Uyehara's blog post 'Big Isle lawmakers aim to rein in biocontrols'

The debate over releasing biocontrol scale insects for strawberry guava control has ignored one very important issue for the legislature to consider. According to the environmental assessment released last year, property owners who want to keep thei…

April 8, 2009

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medical anthropologist/conservationist

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http://savetheguava.com

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Human, animal, and environmental health.

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The Value of Strawberry Guava

What is the value of a strawberry guava tree? This question is vitally important for future compensation of property owners whose trees become infested with the Brazilian scale insect, Tectococcus ovatus, that the government is wanting to release.

We can argue with the scientists about the risks of this bug mutating and adapting to attack other plant species, such as related myrtles, including mountain apple, guava, rose apple, surinam cherry, java plum, euclyptus, o'hia, and much more.

We can… Continue

Posted on April 8, 2009 at 6:02am — 1 Comment