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Posted Sat May 2 2009: from US Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station via ScienceDaily: New Southern California Beetle Killing Oaks http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1241281378 U.S. Forest Service scientists have completed a study on a beetle that was first detected in California in 2004, but has now attacked 67 percent of the oak trees in an area 30 miles east of San Diego. Their report appears in the current issue of The Pan-Pacific Entomologist and focuses on Agrilus coxalis, a wood-boring beetle so rare it does not even have an accepted common name. Scientists have proposed the Entomological Society of America common names committee call it the goldspotted oak borer. [Read more stories about: forests, invasive species, global warming] New!: Your Quips: BillyBoy says: "Too true! Don't glorify them w/ a pretty name! It will just encourage them..." Got a PaniQuip? Your Quip (limit 140 characters, no links, just wit): First name: The text shown in the Web image to the right: We reserve the right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.

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