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. The researchers, using a concept called “gene drive,” manipulated the insects’ DNA so that the female offspring would be sterile, and the method …
It had been deflecting threats for quite a long time. It was plucked up at a Fayetteville big box store by Michael Skvarla, director of Penn State’s Insect Identification Lab, according to a Monday press release from the university. I got home, mounted it, and promptly forgot about it for almost a decade.” Also read: How these endangered Australian animals …
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