Smartest way for man to fight the insects who rival him for the earth’s bounty is to turn insect against insect. The wasp Microbracon mellitor assassinates boll weevils (which last year ...

(The Center Square) – Paying into a fund monitoring an eradicated insect that nearly wiped out ... division told The Center Square. The boll weevil nearly wiped out North Carolina’s cotton ...

the boll weevil and the mungbean or cowpea beetle. Beetles are also important in controlling agricultural pests. Ladybirds, for example, consume aphids, scale insects and other plant-sucking ...