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Richardson Farms in White Marsh is one of the largest growers in Kale in the state of Maryland. Which is why the Diamondback Moth, one of the world’s most notorious crop killers, love their fields. Instead of conventional pesticides, Brian Richardson, calls in Kirk Floyd and son William “Bugg” Floyd of KDrones to air drop hundreds of thousands parasitic wasps onto his crops. The wasps will lay their eggs in the diamondback during their caterpillar stage, where the larvae will eat them from the inside out. What might sound like a horror movie is just another way for farmers to work with nature to grow our food.
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