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What's behind the recent outbreak of small green worms in Dallas-Fort Worth?

Little green worms are crawling all over the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas. Scientists attribute the outbreak of cankerworms, or inchworms, to recent heavy rains.

KERA’s Jacob Wells reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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