About the Authors

Kavita Bitra

Contributed equally to this work with: Kavita Bitra, Richard J. Suderman

Richard J. Suderman

Contributed equally to this work with: Kavita Bitra, Richard J. Suderman

Current address: Aptakon Inc., Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Michael R. Strand

mrstrand@uga.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KB RJS MRS. Performed the experiments: KB RJS MRS. Analyzed the data: KB RJS MRS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RJS MRS. Wrote the paper: MRS.