The modified trees could ward off the insect. Here's Jessica Meszaros with member station WUSF in Tampa. JESSICA MESZAROS, BYLINE: On either side of a sandy dirt road, Valencia orange trees tower ...

hoping to survive until a bug-free tree or other options arrive to repel the disease or treat the trees. When Hurricane Irma blasted through the state’s orange belt in 2017, Florida’s ...

Like many fruit-bearing trees, orange trees are prone to attracting harmful insects like scale, mites, aphids, and more.

Are you suddenly finding groups of ½-inch long, black-orange insects on your ... signs of infestation, when the insects are still outside, feeding on the trees in your yard.

hoping to survive until a bug-free tree or other options arrive to repel the disease or treat the trees. Those catastrophes contributed to a 90% decline in orange production over the past two decades.

hoping to survive until a bug-free tree or other options arrive to repel the disease or treat the trees. Those catastrophes contributed to a 90% decline in orange production over the past two decades.

Orange juice consumption in the U.S. has ... It could be at least three years before bug-resistant trees can be planted, leaving Florida growers looking for help from other technologies.

hoping to survive until a bug-free tree or other options arrive to repel the disease or treat the trees. When Hurricane Irma blasted through the state's orange belt in 2017, Florida's signature ...

Others, like Murphy, are sticking it out, hoping to survive until a bug-free tree or other options arrive to repel the disease or treat the trees. Mounting concerns When Hurricane Irma blasted through ...

hoping to survive until a bug-free tree or other options arrive to repel the disease or treat the trees. When Hurricane Irma blasted through the state’s orange belt in 2017, Florida’s ...

Orange juice consumption in the U.S. has been ... and we’re starting to climb back up that hill,” Murphy says. A bug-free tree A whole ecosystem of businesses dependent on Florida citrus ...