California Cotton Growers Try Environmentally Friendly Pest Controls. From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: July 21, 1999| Author: Fargen, Jessica | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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Jul. 21 -- Millions of sterile, moth-like creatures descend on San Joaquin Valley cotton fields six mornings a week with a mission -- to stop reproduction.

Although they don't know it, the millions of pink bollworms air-dropped onto the cotton fields have saved growers from spending thousands of dollars on pesticides, as well as saved fields from millions of pounds of pesticides over the last 31 years, cotton growers said...

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