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Parasitoids vs chemicals

When the leaf miner first hit South Africa, the results were nothing short of devastating. Farmers spent thousands of rands per hectare on chemicals, but gained only a semblance of control over the pest. The reason was that this particular species, the pea leaf miner (), had already been exposed to pesticides in

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