Ben Normark (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Ben Normark

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Professor Benjamin Normark will spend the fall 2016 semester in Mexico documenting the spread of the insect, cycad aulacaspis scale. It is an invasive species that threatens the country's cycads, plants sometimes called 'living fossils' because they have changed little in the last 280 million years.

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