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Vermont farmers are locked in a fierce battle against the Colorado potato beetle—an evolutionary super soldier resistant to over 200 pesticides—that’s devastating potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplants. Scientists are unraveling its genetic secrets to find smarter, sustainable controls, while farmers experiment with delayed planting and decoy crops to disrupt its life cycle. With cutting-edge tools like RNA interference in the pipeline, the race is on to protect Vermont’s harvests before this resilient pest wins the war.

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