The battle of the beetle!
Nov 25, 2019
2 minutes
It is a beetle, only 2mm long, that is native to Asia. Together with its symbiotic fungus, Fusarium euwallacea, this beetle destroys trees that are decades old. The deadly duo were first detected in 2017 in the KwaZulu-Natal National Botanical Garden in Pietermaritzburg, and just three years later Limpopo
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