The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service raises 700 million pink bollworm moths each year at its Phoenix, AZ, facility. The moths, which are sterile, are released to mate with wild moths in central California's cotton fields. The Agricultural Research Service's Richard H. Edwards has developed an extrusion method of producing food for the bollworms and other laboratory-raised insects.
It's mealtime and you have 5 million hungry mouths-or, in this case, moths--to feed. But a new ...