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It's "bugs-r-us." (management of the Agricultural Research Service's Beneficial Insects Introduction Research Laboratory)(includes related article) (Cover Story)

From: Agricultural Research  |  Date: 10/1/1991  |  Author: De Quattro, Jim

It's "Bugs-R-Us"

Across the road from the huge Chrysler assembly plant in Newark, Delaware, a different sort of factory specializes in foreign imports.

The imports--flies, wasps, beetles, and other bugs--will wage a deadly but nonchemical war against devastating agricultural pests.

The good bugs' staging site, tucked next to a pasture on the grounds of the University of Delaware, is the Beneficial Insects Introduction Research Laboratory of USDA's Agricultural Research ...

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