Release Of Sterile Pests May Help Eliminate Need For Genetically Modified Crops
Pink cotton bollworms on cotton boll. Image credit:excerpted from image on Wikipedia Mass release of sterile crop pests can be a practical control strategy (presumably even for organic farmers). As reported by SciDevNet , ‘release of sterile insects has successfully lowered populations of the Mediterranean fruit fly in Guatemala, Mexico and the United States; screw-worms in Central America, Libya and the United States; and tsetse flies in Za… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Release Of Sterile Pests May Help Eliminate Need For Genetically Modified Crops
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