Doing Science with Our Living Collections: the Case of the Crapemyrtle Bark Scale
June 30, 2023 at 1:41 pm
One reason we preserve our living collections is to be able to do science with those collections. But sometimes, doing science is also living collections preservation in action. Such is the case with our accessioned crapemyrtle trees (Lagerstroemia spp.) and the associated exotic insect pest crapemyrtle bark scale (CMBS), Acanthococcus lagerstroemiae. CMBS is a new […]