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Published online 2 July 2008 | Nature 454, 18-19 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454018a
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Entomology: Battlefield insectica
Entomologists are briefing the military on how to protect troops from the scourge of the desert: sandflies. Rex Dalton reports.
The desert to the east of Palm Springs, California, is heaven for entomologists. Between date-palm fields irrigated with standing water and the inland Salton Sea buzz a bonanza of insects.
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