The Practices - Agroecology in Action - page 125

Figure 5.2
Top: A Goniozus legerni crawls up the back of a NOW larva. Middle: The
Goniozus paralyzes the NOW and lays eggs on the back of its neck. Bottom:
Goniozus eggs emerging from the NOW carcass. Photographs courtesy of Kent
Daane.
to insect damage. It was totally assumed the nonpareils could not be
grown without pesticides. [Hendricks's report said] 'It has become the
least of our problems. We have low rejects on nonpareils as we do other
varieties. The seal is not much of a factor.' And he stated that boldly in
the middle of his report. I thought, 'Whoa. Now we're making head-
way.'” Thus, before BIOS was even conceived, the scientific inquiry of a
critical partnership pioneer led him to question some dominant assump-
tions about almond pest management, in part because he had a lived
experience, shared with other scientists, of studying nature to make