Tiny Wasps Released to Fight Texas Whiteflies
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
Scientists released thousands of tiny parasitic wasps over the fields of Texas’ Rio Grande Valley on Monday in hopes that they will check the whitefly’s appetite for vegetables and cotton.
The microscopic, stingless wasps from Europe are harmless to humans and animals but deadly to many species of the whitefly, which feeds on a host of crops.
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