Tiny wasps from China may help protect farmers' soybeans
By Anne Cook
Tuesday July 31, 2007
URBANA – Tiny wasps from China may soon help farmers protect soybeans in their fields by turning aphids that feed on them into mummies.
Illinois Natural History Survey entomologist Dave Voegtlin, an aphid specialist, and his graduate student, Doris Lagos, grow the wasps, which are about 1.5 millimeters long – 17 of them end to end would be an inch long – in containers in a laboratory at the National Soybean Research Laboratory.
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