New project aims to save Darwin’s finches (IMAGE)

Morris Animal Foundation

New project aims to save Darwin’s finches

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Researchers with the University of Minnesota hope to release highly-specialized parasitic wasps to serve as a biological control method to save Darwin’s finches from a dire threat: the invasive avian vampire fly, Philornis downsi. 

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George Heimpel

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