Ecopesticides uses fungi to stop crop destroying insects

Wednesday, September 3, 2014 - 06:31 in Mathematics & Economics

A New Mexico startup company has begun field tests to prove they can kill desert locusts in Africa using a natural bio-pesticide technology developed at the University of New Mexico. The company, founded by two UNM physicians, is taking on one of the oldest problems in history, the desert locust swarms that can completely destroy food crops in Africa.

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