Researchers test biological ways to control alfalfa pest
Friday, May 1, 2009 - 14:21
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers are spending time in the fields this spring collecting 20,000 alfalfa snout beetles. They need them to test ways to biologically control the pests, which devour alfalfa and other crops.
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