Gnawing, burrowing, infecting: The damages caused to agriculture by insect pests like the Japanese beetle (pictured above) exceed $100 billion every year, according to the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA.
And along with plant diseases, which the exoskeleton buggers can also transmit, arthropods account for the annual 40% loss of agricultural production worldwide.
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https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/07/farmsense-agtech-machine-learning-crops/
ワシントンは侵略者ジャパニーズビートルとの戦争を計画中
Washington plots war on invasive Japanese beetle
https://www.capitalpress.com/ag_sectors/nursery/washington-plots-war-on-invasive-japanese-beetle/article_eba7c35e-4959-11ec-82c3-0b8a315ec643.html
