Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "In 1989, a sudden invasion of medflies (Mediterranean fruit flies) descended on California and began devastating crops. Scientists were puzzled and said that the sudden appearance of the insects \"defies logic\", and some speculated \"biological terrorists\" were responsible. Analysis suggested there is no doubt that an outside hand played a role in the dense infestation.A person or group calling itself \"The Breeders\" took responsibility for the attack, as financial retaliation for the environmental damage caused by the state's Malathion aerial spraying; the group's members were never identified. Subsequently, three months after \"The Breeders\" announced the medfly release, the state ended its decade-long Malathion program and sought alternate ways to handle destructive insects."@en }
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- 1989_California_medfly_attack abstract "In 1989, a sudden invasion of medflies (Mediterranean fruit flies) descended on California and began devastating crops. Scientists were puzzled and said that the sudden appearance of the insects \"defies logic\", and some speculated \"biological terrorists\" were responsible. Analysis suggested there is no doubt that an outside hand played a role in the dense infestation.A person or group calling itself \"The Breeders\" took responsibility for the attack, as financial retaliation for the environmental damage caused by the state's Malathion aerial spraying; the group's members were never identified. Subsequently, three months after \"The Breeders\" announced the medfly release, the state ended its decade-long Malathion program and sought alternate ways to handle destructive insects.".