EPISODE · Mar 2, 2026 · 29 MIN
The bat scientist and the pecan farmer
from Up From Dust · host Celia Llopis-Jepsen
A Texas pecan farmer spent years rethinking whether he needed so many chemicals to grow food. He cut back on things like weedkillers, but when it came to ditching insecticides, crop pests posed a challenge. That’s what brought him together with a famous bat scientist — who helped him build an insect-eating army of bats.
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