Entomologist seeks virus to control bulb flies
Joelle Harms
A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are searching for a possible bio-control remedy to combat the large narcissus bulb fly (Merodon equestris), a pest that destroys thousands of narcissus bulbs in the United States each year. The adults feed on pollen and nectar from flowers of the plant genus Lilium and Narcissus, […]
