In 2012, after two years of increased rainfall, California’s most prized ornamental trees – the coral beans – began wilting and falling away, revealing stems which had been hollowed out from the inside by the caterpillars of Erythrina stem borer moths. Another massive outbreak followed in 2015 after a significant bout of rainfall caused by […]

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