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Walnut Twig Beetle: How a 'Failed' Research Project Led to Success
A scientific research project may initially be deemed a failure, but failure can lead to success. It did recently at the University of California, Davis. Take the case of the walnut twig beetle, Pityophthorus juglandis, which in association with the canker-producing...
Forest entomologists Jackson Audley (left) and the late Steve Seybold next to a black walnut tree, the victim of thousand cankers disease, in downtown Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The walnut twig beetle is about the size of a grain of rice. In association with a fungus, it causes thousand cankers disease. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
