News tagged with pest management
Agricultural pest management program efficiency challenged by information diffusion barriers among farmers
While international pest management programs have long relied on farmer cooperation to spread pest control information at larger scales, a study by French researchers published in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Bi ...
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Biology, crop injury, and management of thrips in cotton seedlings
A new, open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management provides a brief summary of the various species of thrips present in U.S. cotton, their plant host range and injury to cotton, a general description of thr ...
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Legume ipmPIPE: A new option for generating, summarizing and disseminating real-time pest data
A new, open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management describes the background, usage, and value of the Legume Integrated Pest Management Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education (ipmPIPE). The go ...
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Soybean rust PIPE: Past, present and future
A new, open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management describes the origin, function, successes, limitations, and future of the Soybean Rust Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education (PIPE).
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Forest fungus factory: New technology fights hemlock pest
An invasive insect, hemlock woolly adelgid, has been marching north along the Appalachians, killing almost every hemlock tree in its path. The adelgid has devastated forests in Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. The pest recently ...
Jul 21, 2011 |
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California uses wasps in battle against apple moths
California agricultural officials will release hundreds of tiny, stinger-less wasps this month to combat the fruit- and leaf-eating light-brown apple moth, in a move to find alternatives to aerial pesticide spraying.
Jul 10, 2011 |
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Seed mixtures and insurance pest management: Future norm in the Corn Belt?
As the use of biotechnology increases and more companies move forward with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's approval to begin full-scale commercialization of seed mixtures in transgenic insecticidal corn, many researchers ...
May 05, 2011 |
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'Fly Man' researches pesky pests on Alcatraz
When forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey leaves the UC Davis Department of Entomology for his bimonthly trips to Alcatraz Island, it's not to sightsee.
May 02, 2011 |
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Chemical-free pest management cuts rice waste
In 2006, Maria Otilia Carvalho, a researcher from the Tropical Research Institute of Portugal had an ambitious goal: to cut the huge losses of rice – a staple food crop for half of humanity – due to pests, without ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Slight change in wind turbine speed significantly reduces bat mortality
While wind energy has shown strong potential as a large-scale, emission-free energy source, bat and bird collisions at wind turbines result in thousands of fatalities annually. Migratory bats, such as the ...
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Survey shows many child care centers use pesticides to control pests
(PhysOrg.com) -- A survey of 637 licensed child care centers conducted by a UC Berkeley researcher for the California Department of Pesticide Regulation found that many of the centers have used pesticide spays and foggers ...
Jul 21, 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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House-infesting brown dog tick becoming resistant to common pesticides, experts say
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's bad enough that the Southeast is bedeviled by a tick that doesn't mind taking up residence inside homes. But now researchers say they believe the brown dog tick has developed resistance ...
Sep 23, 2009 |
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UW-Madison entomologist helps farmers deal with tricky crop pest
(PhysOrg.com) -- Historically, crop rotation has worked to keep the western corn rootworm in check in Wisconsin.
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Biological clocks of insects could lead to more effective pest control
Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered that the circadian rhythms or biological "clocks" in some insects can make them far more susceptible to pesticides at some times of the day instead of ...
Aug 12, 2009 |
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