Corn earworm is one of the costliest crop pests in North America. An entomologist is Kentucky is studying how a fly is helping control the pest in hemp.
The earworm not only affects hemp and corn, but will attack commodities like tomato, cotton, beans, alfalfa and tobacco.
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