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Soil fungus found killing African armyworm in KwaZulu-Natal could become a biopesticide
Entomologist Letodi Luki Mathulwe reports the first South African isolation of Metarhizium rileyi infecting and killing armyworm larvae in kikuyu pastures — larvae that pyrethroids control only at 1–5 mm and whose feeding makes kikuyu release cyanide compounds that poison cattle; mass production and