New predator insects may help fight major maize pests
Insect pests, such as maize stem borers and fall armyworm, increasingly challenge food production around the world.
Huge demands for crops have meant agricultural systems have simplified and frequently focused on single crops. In monocropping systems, when fields are full of a single crop, they can easily be found by their insect pests, as opposed to when mixed cropping is practised. Because of this, higher yield losses have more chance to occur in monocropping systems.
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