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    is this like pine beetles where before global warming the population of the bugs responsible would die off in the winter?

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      I think it’s more like chestnut blight, where people took a localized pathogen, and moved it around the world, and it then discovered lots of trees with no immunity

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        And Panama Disease.

        The song “Yes, We Have No Bananas” was written because people thought bananas were going to be wiped out. Botanists were lucky enough to discover the Cavendish banana strain would survive where the former popular Gros Michel strain would not. I’m told Gros Michel taste far better.