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Article: Finding the needle in the haystack: using parasitic wasps to kill hidden stored-grain pests.
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- Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World
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- March 1, 1999
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Using parasitic wasps to kill hidden stored-grain pests
Move over Sherlock. USDAARS entomologists have turned detective to solve an agricultural mystery.
The case involves parasitic wasps which find and attack insect pests in multi-ton masses of stored grain. The researchers are searching for clues to how the bugs pull off their seek-and-destroy capers.
Entomologists Ralph Howard and James Baker hope their studies will lead to methods for helping the wasps naturally control insect pests in stored grain. They conduct their work at the Biological Research Unit in the Grain Marketing and Production Research Center, Manhattan, Kansas.
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