Spring has come — the season when cherry blossoms bloom nationwide.
But ecologists warn that Japan's most popular sites for hanami (cherry blossom-viewing) might disappear in the next couple of decades.
This is because red-necked longhorn beetles, a species foreign to the country, are eating the blossoms and damaging the trees.
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