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Camouflaging wheat with a wheat smell could be a new approach to pest control

Wheat germ oil spread over a wheat field makes finding the seeds too much effort for mice

A close up photo of a tiny brown mouse eating from a small pile of grain with burlap sacks in the background.

Mice are tiny, but their appetites are big. Rodents are responsible for the loss of 70 million metric tons of cereals per year. One solution? Camouflage the wheat — with more wheat.

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By Bethany Brookshire

Now you smell it, now you don’t.