On 11 December 2018, a searchlight trap that researchers had set up in Yunnan, China’s south-western border province, caught a moth that had never been recorded in the country: the fall armyworm, a voracious maize pest native to the Americas. It had not arrived in a shipping container. Trajectory modelling showed the moths had been […]
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