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The end of the greenfly ?

Posted by claudia de yong on February 27, 2010 at 11:02pm in Marketing
A small article in the paper caught my eye the other day. It read ' Breakthrough in the battle with Greenfly'.Every gardener will now be jumping with joy that scientists have discovered the DNA of greenfly and established that it has a weak immune system, due to a missing gene.They will now try to develop an insecticide that will kill the greenfly but leave friendly insects like bees unharmed as their immune systems are not the same.I wonder if that will not be good news to the ladybird though who may have to find another source of 5 a day?
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  • Lawncare-4u.co.uk February 28, 2010 at 12:02am
    what about whitefly ? does bug-clear kill bees ?
  • Mark February 28, 2010 at 2:16pm
    I think playing god is a dangerous thing...no tests can predict what the knock on effects might be for all species..?

    One thing is for sure if you did take them out something else would fill the void !!!
  • claudia de yong February 28, 2010 at 5:51pm
    As you say Mark- you take one species out but what happens to the chain?
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