Now Onto a Hungry Caterpillar

Sep 24, 2020

Oxitec, the biotech firm that developed genetically engineered mosquitoes, has now unveiled its modified fall armyworm, Wired reports.

According to Wired, the fall armyworm caterpillar is native to the Americas, but now wreaks havoc on crops around the world. It, for instance, eats 17.7 million tons of corn each year, it says.

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