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Auburn University entomologists have discovered and identified a wasp that could provide benefits to soybean producers and other farmers. Though only about the size of a pinhead, the newly detected parasitoid wasp, Ooencyrtus nezarae, can do plenty of damage to the kudzu bug, a quarter-inch-long invasive pest to soybeans and other legume crops in the Southeast. Researchers in Henry Fadamiro’s, associate dean for research for the College of Agriculture and associate director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, lab were the first to detect the wasp’s presence in North America.
