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Anticipating a giant blackberry crop this year (since three new plants have been added to the one brought from my mother’s house), I decided to take inventory. The main primocane on my mother’s plant (the oldest) and the youngest addition had swollen stems, as if the blackberries had swallowed large marbles. Galls? Looking up the list of ailments blackberries suffer from, I discovered the Rednecked Cane Borer (Agrilus ruficollis). It fit the bill. Such an appropriate name for a bug from this area.

So much of our sensitive personal data is being tracked and sold that trying to protect our privacy can seem like a pointless exercise. We can disable the location tracking on phone apps only to find new apps stalking us the next time we check.

BEIJING (AP) — China is promoting coal-fired power as the ruling Communist Party tries to revive a sluggish economy, prompting warnings Beijing is setting back efforts to cut climate-changing carbon emissions from the biggest global source.