And if you go to today to a coffee farm, the farmer will usually talk to you a lot about the need to increase water use sufficiency to fight diseases like coffee leaf rust, or coffee borer beetle.
This makes attacking the beetles with insecticides tricky Researchers have however known for some time that a species of central American and called Azteca is adapt at keeping berry borer populations at bay.
In the American suburbs, we will see more emerald ash borers, the brilliantly green beetles native to Asia that were introduced to the US after a few of them clung to some wooden packaging that made its way to Detroit.