1986 · Over the African cassava belt
Two thousand wasps a second
The release method sounded absurd until you watched the parcels leave the aircraft door over the cassava belt.
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Archive
Stories
Short tellings from the field, the insectary, the air, and the compound after hours. Folklore lives in detail — names, nights, jokes, near-misses. Staff and family voices belong here equally.
1981 · Paraguay & Brazil
Looking for a ghost in Paraguay
Cassava came from the Amazon. So did its pest. The enemy of that enemy had to be found where both were at home.
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1984 · Ibadan
The factory that smelled like honeydew
Mass rearing was not glamorous. It was heat, schedule, and an insectary that never really slept.
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1988 · West & Central Africa
A map drawn in releases
From Senegal to Mozambique, the programme was a logistics problem disguised as entomology.
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1991 · Regional workshops
Training the trainers
The science only mattered if national programmes could carry it after the international team moved on.
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1990 · Cassava belt
When the mealybug went quiet
Success looked like nothing happening — fields that no longer whitened, markets that stayed open.
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