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Host resistance, tolerance, and vulnerability determine levels of field damage from a complex of Asian rice stem borers

Rice yield losses due to stem borers and the choice by farmers to predominantly use insecticides to control stem borers demonstrate a continuing need to...

Fear and loathing drive needless insecticide use

A wasp larvae is a parasite that attacks cutworm larva. (Photo: Friends Of The Rice Farmer: Helpful Insects, Spiders, And Pathogens) Rice farmers, like...

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