The apple blossom beetle is on the rise and affects the apples of fruit growers. They used to use the biological pesticide Raptol, but that is not allowed this year because it is dangerous for bees and bumblebees. There are alternatives, but they don’t work as well. And for organic growers there is nothing. “That drug has to come back.”
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Fruit growers with their hands in their hair by apple blossom beetle: ‘Even tried to squeeze them to death’
