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A close up of a caterpillar on a plant leaf

A dozen fall army worm specimens on a laboratory agar plate showing signs of a white fungus which killed them.

Two worms covered in a white fungus next to a long leaf

Scientist looking up from mircoscope

"I think we're pretty close. We could basically commercialise the product now and get it in the field,"
Dr Newton said.

Close up images of caterpillars infected with the deadly fungi strains

"The Australian fungi that we found work really rapidly I think could change the way we go about biocontrol in Australia,"
she said.

Images of fall army worm under a microscope that have been treated with the fungus

"It reinforces that the really horrendous year we had last year is more likely to be an anomaly,"
Dr Miles said.

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