United Kingdom
January 28, 2013

Video diary reveals the battle against country-wide insect plague.

Many important jobs require people to be on call, waiting for the phone to ring and to spring into action at a moment's notice. For BBSRC-funded Professor Kenneth Wilson at Lancaster University, the call doesn't take him to a hospital, an accident, or even an office. Between October and April in any year, when Wilson gets the call he embarks on a research trip to Africa where he combats the march of serious insect crop pests called armyworms that can devastate agricultural production and cause food security issues in many countries across eastern and southern Africa.

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Website: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk

Published: February 11, 2013