Bats can help protect rice farms against pests

ENN
Apr 14, 2014, 3:28 pm17 pts
[KUALA LUMPUR] Bats that prey on a major rice pest in Thailand could save paddy harvests worth millions of dollars and help contribute to better food security, scientists say in a paper published in Biological Conservation recently (March).

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