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Ageing warriors no match for bugs.
Australasian Business Intelligence, November, 2006
Byline: Brendan O'Keefe
Nov 07, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Little is spent on entomological training in Australia despite the threat insects and invertebrates can pose to the economy, agricultural sector and public health. There is no university in Australia offering a dedicated entomology program, and the Centre for Entomological Research & Insecticide Technology at the University of New South Wales is about to close. Australian Entomological Society president, Jonathan Majer, estimates as many as three quarters of Australia's insect species have not been named, including many that could be useful to industry. The society has been denied federal funding for an entomology degree program it devised. Entomologists currently study biology or...
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