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Agriculture: Battle of alien moth
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-03-30 14:19 A small leaf-addicted white moth has fanned great
unease of the Chinese government over the eco-environment safety of its capital
Beijing in the spring.
The State Forestry Administration (SFA) announced on Wednesday that Beijing
and its three neighbors, Tianjin, Hebei and Liaoning, would jointly carry out a
battle to wipe out the American White Moth, or Hyphantria cunea, a harmful
forest migrant from the North America.
The invasive alien moth is threatening plants and crops in six provinces and
municipalities in China with 116 counties involved, among which, Beijing and its
neighbors suffered most, according to an SFA's latest bulletin on the
moth-attacking situation.
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