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Biting midges spread germs that cause animal and human disease, but they are stubbornly difficult to manage. A new proof-of-concept study shows that silver nanoparticles—minuscule bits of metal at the scale of billionths of a meter—are an effective insecticide for killing larvae of the biting midge Culicoides sonorensis. [Read more]
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