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In Hawaii, parasites and viruses team up in the battle against fruit flies – an entomologist explains the implication for global pest control

  • Written by Kelsey Coffman, Assistant Professor of Entomology & Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee
imageDiachasmimorpha longicaudata, a parasitoid wasp that helps control pests.Sheina Sim, CC BY

Take a stroll along one of the beaches on Hawaii Island in late summer, and you’ll likely stumble upon almond-shaped fruits lying in the sand. Known as false kamani nuts, or tropical almonds, they fall from tall, shady Terminalia catappa trees that line...

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