Bug Bites Cut Florida Orange Crop to Lowest in 2 Decades
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A gnat-sized insect, the Asian citrus psyllid, forced Dean Mixon to replace about 1,000 orange trees in the past two years on the 50-acre Florida farm his grandfather started in the 1930s. The bug spreads a disease called citrus greening, causing fruit to shrink and drop early.
“This is the worst we ever had to deal with,” said Mixon,