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Friday, December 27, 2002

Sweet potato hornworm ca

Sweet potato hornworm caterpillars, black with a horn-like marking on the back end, are now infesting the Hawaiian island of Moloka’i. Up to 90 percent of the eggs are usually killed by the parasite Trichogramma, but this year there are more than 300,000 of the insects per square acre.

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