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  • Corn rootworm keeps evolving ways to resist pesticides that protect $50 billion corn industry

    Mar 2, 2017 1:00 pm by Scientific AmericanIllinois in the NewsOutreach
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    Scientific American (Feb. 14) Illinois entomologist Joseph Spencer worries that technology to defeat the corn rootworm will work only briefly against an inventive foe.