Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Best Tech to Find Orange Blight?

There's a nasty tree disease called "citrus greening" that may be making our orange juice more expensive.

It's called that because the fruit on affected trees never ripens properly, staying green. The disease has other symptoms too, and there's no cure - infected trees are culled.

Well, we have a new...or rather very old...weapon to save our orange juice (or the lime with your Corona).

Woof!

Yup. They're now training dogs, who can detect the infection well before the tree has any symptoms, allowing infected trees to be removed quickly before it spreads through the grove.

Because the dog's nose is still the best technology for so many things...

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