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South American potato farmers are seeing a notorious pest in a new light. It turns out the saliva of the Guatemalan potato moth may actually help increase tuber yields.
The Guatemalan potato moth has long plagued tuber crops in South America. But as Living on Earth’s Amanda Martinez reports, scientists recently found that a compound in the moths’ saliva can actually more than double potato yields.