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Five gallons of death

August 6, 2017 · by · in agricultural science, Nature, Out and About, Plant breeding, Soybean · 12 Comments

That sounds pretty yucky.  And it should.  Hidden within this bucket are almost five full gallons of dead Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica).  These insects are serious herbivores and in significant numbers can render serious harm. In the face of an outbreak of these fiendish little coleopterans one might choose to spray chemicals, deploy pheromone traps, […]