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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

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U. of I. entomology professor Alexandra Harmon-Threatt and former doctoral student Scott Clem found that field edges with a diversity of plants sustain a diversity of beneficial insects, spiders and other arthropods that help keep pest species populations in check.

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