Another piece of news that shows the importance of proper taxonomy - Liberia is suffering from an abundance of crop-eating caterpillars, bad enough that the President has declared a state of emergency, and then they discover that they've been spraying for the wrong species of caterpillar.
Hat-tip to Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog for passing on this piece of news.
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3 weeks ago in Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
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