Biopesticide is harmless to mammals but can wipe out colonies of wasps that benefit plants (IMAGE)

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Biopesticide is harmless to mammals but can wipe out colonies of wasps that benefit plants

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Social wasps of the species Mischocyttarus metathoracicus did not distinguish between healthy nestmates and individuals infected by the fungus Beauveria bassiana, which can kill entire colonies 

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André R. de Souza

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