{"id":4171,"date":"2015-01-21T08:16:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T13:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/newsroom\/?post_type=fdoc-news-item&amp;p=381"},"modified":"2015-01-21T08:16:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T13:16:52","slug":"in-the-news-are-asian-citrus-psyllids-afraid-of-heights","status":"publish","type":"fdoc-news-item","link":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/fdoc-news-item\/in-the-news-are-asian-citrus-psyllids-afraid-of-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Are Asian citrus psyllids afraid of heights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jee.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2015\/01\/19\/jee.tou050\">Journal of Economic Entomology<\/a>\u00a0finds that the Asian citrus psyllid \u2013 the tiny bug responsible for the spread of HLB \u2013\u00a0doesn\u2019t fare well at elevations of 500 meters to 800 meters above sea level, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2015\/01\/20\/one-way-to-beat-a-bug-thats-destroying-floridas-citrus-get-them-high\/\">Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0reports. Conducted in Puerto Rico, the study gives researchers new hope in finding an avenue to battle HLB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional coverage of the study appeared in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/entomologytoday.org\/2015\/01\/20\/are-asian-citrus-psyllids-afraid-of-heights-elevation-study-may-provide-clues-for-stopping-them\/\">Entomology Today<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.natureworldnews.com\/articles\/12068\/20150120\/fighting-citrus-pests-acrophobia.htm\">Nature World News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in the\u00a0Journal of Economic Entomology\u00a0finds that the Asian citrus psyllid \u2013 the tiny bug responsible for the spread of HLB \u2013\u00a0doesn\u2019t fare well at elevations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","fdoc_news_item_category":[106,100],"fdoc_citrus_type":[107,108],"fdoc_health_category":[],"class_list":["post-4171","fdoc-news-item","type-fdoc-news-item","status-publish","hentry","fdoc_news_item_category-citrus-greening","fdoc_news_item_category-industry","fdoc_citrus_type-orange","fdoc_citrus_type-orange-juice"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-news-item\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-news-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fdoc-news-item"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fdoc_news_item_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_news_item_category?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_citrus_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_citrus_type?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_health_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_health_category?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}