Flightless wasp a step ahead in biocontrol.
From: Agricultural Research
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Date: 6/1/1993
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Author: Cooke, Linda
Agricultural Research Service field trials will attempt to determine if a mutant flightless wasp can help control the cotton bollworm. The mutant was discovered by ARS geneticist William W.M. Steiner and a colleague at Columbia, MO's Biological Control of Insects Research Laboratory. Researchers there hope to transfer the wasp's clipped-wings gene to other biological-control insects.
A quarter-inch-long wasp that can't fly could save the spring cotton crop from the ravages of the cotton ...
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