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University of Illinois entomology senior scientist Manfredo Seufferheld, graduate student Chia-Ching Chu, Illinois Natural History Survey insect behaviorist Joseph Spencer and their colleagues found that gut microbes helped the western corn rootworm beetle survive in soybean fields long enough to lay its eggs.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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