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Yard waste transferred across state lines can carry hidden pests into new places. A new study finds signs of an invasive beetle, fly, and moth in samples of yard waste in Washington and shows how environmental DNA sampling methods could detect hard-to-catch pests in a variety of materials subject to border inspection. [Read more]
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