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Paul Nelson is used to doing battle with an invasive fruit fly called the spotted wing drosophila, a pest that one year ruined more than half the berries on the Minnesota farm he and his team run. In recent years, they ve cut their losses closer to 5%, but it s been labor-intensive and expensive.
New research offers some hope to fruit growers who have struggled with a damaging fruit fly, estimated to cost growers hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Paul Nelson is used to doing battle with an invasive fruit fly called the spotted wing drosophila, a pest that one year ruined more than half the berries on the Minnesota farm he and his team run. In