Washington State University researchers have found they can control one of fruit growers' more severe pests, aphids, with a remarkably benign tool: flowers. The discovery is a boon for organic as well as ...

Biology - Ecology

May 14, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

Arnold van Huis is an expert on tropical insects specialised in pest management and biological control based at Wageningen University. He advocates growing insects as feed for livestock and for human consumption. Here, van ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 14, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

(Phys.org) —A significant field discovery analyzing how natural temperature fluctuations affect the growth rate of the dengue mosquito could lead to crucial control-and-prevention strategies, according ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

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European countries with gaps in border security surrounding agricultural imports have been invaded by the largest number of exotic insect pests, according to research published Oct 24 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Ste ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 24, 2012 3 / 5 (2) 0

The green stink bug is one of the most damaging native stink bug species in the United States. Stink bugs feeding on cotton, soybeans, tomatoes, peaches, and other crops can result in cosmetic damage as well ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 26, 2012 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sugar may be a treat for humans, but for aphids it can be life threatening. A $452,000 grant to Cornell and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI) will fund research exploiting ...

Biology - Ecology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Duke University electrical engineers have developed a wirelessly powered telemetry system that is light and powerful enough to allow scientists to study the intricate neurological activity ...

Technology - Engineering

Nov 16, 2011 4.3 / 5 (3) 1 |

A new, open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management provides a review of cereal leaf beetle biology, past and present management practices, and current research being conducted.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 17, 2011 not rated yet 0

It's been called "the Manhattan Project of Entomology," an undertaking that has the potential to revolutionize the way we think about insects.

Biology - Biotechnology

Jun 15, 2011 not rated yet 0

Research carried out in Mali, West Africa, has demonstrated that a new, safe and uncomplicated insect control method, developed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, can bring about a serious decline in malaria-bearing ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Nov 08, 2010 not rated yet 0

A new infectious disease spreading rapidly across the northeastern United States has killed millions of bats and is predicted to cause regional extinction of a once-common bat species, according to the findings of a University ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 05, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 1 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- South Dakota's mosquito population is back in force this summer.

Biology - Other

Jul 09, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered that a protein from a soil bacterium used to kill insects naturally on organic crops is a highly effective treatment for intestinal parasitic roundworms. These parasites, which include ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Mar 02, 2010 not rated yet 0

Parasitic wasps kill pest insects, but their existence is largely unknown to the public. Now, scientists led by John H. Werren, professor of biology at the University of Rochester, and Stephen Richards at ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 14, 2010 3.8 / 5 (5) 4 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Beltsville, Md., manage a most unusual sort of insurance: 43,000 slides and vials containing all manner of wormlike organisms called nematodes, ...

Biology - Other

Jan 05, 2010 not rated yet 0