[MPWG] NEWS: Herbal tea ingredient helps beetle-plagued trees

[Olivia Kwong]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090204/ap_on_re_us/bark_beetles_herbal_tea

Herbal tea ingredient helps beetle-plagued trees
By Jeff Barnard, Associated Press Writer -- Tue Feb 3, 8:18 pm ET

GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Would a dose of herbal tea slow the march of beetles 
killing millions of acres of pine trees across the West?

Sort of.

But instead of brewing up a cup, U.S. Forest Service scientists found that 
sprinkling tiny flakes containing the pheromone verbenone over lodgepole 
pine forests cut the number of trees attacked by bark beetles by 
two-thirds.

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