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      6 days ago

      reproductive habits of some insects are of critical importance in pest control in agriculture

      natural product chemists (it’s a subfield of organic chemistry) find and identify new weird shit in obscure organisms (esp marine organisms) all the time. because amounts are tiny, then their work is on synthesis of the same thing. some of these turn out to be useful