The great cactus war / by Terry Domico
- Bib ID:
- 7790057
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Domico, Terry, author
- Description:
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- Anna Bay, NSW : Green Flash Books, 2018
- ©2018
- vii, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps, portraits (some colour) ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781883385187 (paperback)
- Summary:
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This is the gripping story of Australia's epic battle with the invasive prickly-pear cactus that occupied more than 60 million acres of farm and grazing land during the first third of the 20th century. At it peak, the "green menace" was spreading at a rate of over one million acres a year and driving thousands of homesteader off their properties. This is also the story about a team of mostly self-taught Australian entomologists who discovered that the caterpillar of a tiny moth they discovered in Argentina, with the big name of Cactoblastis cactorum, could destroy the pear outright. During a 5-year-long period, the prickly-pear was destroyed, revealing abandoned farms, roads, even entire villages. Following the clearing away of the pear, the land was then resettled. This nation's tiniest hero may now be poised to create a possible plague of its own in the United States and Mexico. This unique 392 page book contains a table of contents, 30 colour illustrations, a notes and bibliography section, plus an index. The author has spent over 5 and half years researching this subject.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-344) and index.
- Subject:
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- Prickly pears -- Biological control -- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Prickly pears -- Control -- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Weeds -- Biological control -- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Weeds -- Control -- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Pyralidae -- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Australian
- Also Titled:
- Cover title: The great cactus war : true story of the greatest plant invasion in human history
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2018
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