Entomology professor Esther Ngumbi in the greenhouse (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Entomology professor Esther Ngumbi in the greenhouse

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Entomology professor Esther Ngumbi studies how two varieties of tomato plants and the larvae of tomato hornworm respond to flooding. The hornworm caterpillars are enclosed in plastic bags affixed to the tomato plants.

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