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Maize pests and their natural enemies

Maize pests and their natural enemies

Update: 2025-12-06
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Fall armyworm’s arrival means an additional caterpillar pest that loves to feed on maize and sweetcorn. In this episode of Cut the Crop, Graham Walker and Jeremy Gonthier of Plant and Food Research, a division of the Bioeconomy Science Institute, talk about the role a tiny parasitic wasp Cotesia ruficrus will have in its control.

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Maize pests and their natural enemies

Maize pests and their natural enemies

Foundation for Arable Research (NZ)