News tagged with invasive pests
Hidden habits and movements of insect pests revealed by DNA barcoding
University of Minnesota researcher George Weiblen and colleagues have found a faster way to study the spread and diet of insect pests.
Mar 09, 2010 |
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Entomologists say biocontrol of insect pest in the Galapagos Islands is a major success
The Galapagos Islands, made famous by Charles Darwin, have a unique biota now highly threatened by invasive species because of increased tourism and population growth. Indeed, alien or exotic insects today ...
Apr 22, 2010 |
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Eliminating weeds could put more cows on the pasture
A weed calculator developed by an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist tells ranchers the number of additional cows they could raise if they eliminated one or two widespread exotic invasive weeds.
Apr 28, 2010 |
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Biofuel crops pose invasive pest risk
Researchers with the University of Hawaii Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit have examined the impact of unregulated planting of biofuel crops for their potential invasiveness and raised concerns about their impacts on Hawaii's ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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UC Riverside entomologist helps manage invasion threats posed to California's avocados
California's avocado industry is worth more than $320 million annually, and has about 6,000 growers farming more than 6,000 acres of land. Indeed, California grows nearly 95 percent of the country's avocados.
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Firewood movement leading cause of oak infestation in San Diego County
A catastrophic infestation of the goldspotted oak borer, which has killed more than 80,000 oak trees in San Diego County in the last decade, might be contained by controlling the movement of oak firewood from that region, ...
Sep 02, 2011 |
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