News tagged with pest species
Can wasps help save Britain's conker trees?
Wasps, regarded by many as a pest, could be the salvation of Britain’s imperilled conker trees currently under threat by an ‘alien’ species of moth that is rapidly spreading damage across the country’s horse ...
Jul 09, 2010 |
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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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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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Grasshopper outlook strikes fear on Western range
(AP) -- Grasshopper infestations have taken on mythic tones here on the arid prairie of northeastern Wyoming - they blanket highways, eat T-shirts off clotheslines and devour nearly every scrap of vegetation ...
Mar 28, 2010 |
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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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Variable Temperatures Leave Insects wtih a Frosty Reception
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists at The University of Western Ontario have shown that insects exposed to repeated periods of cold will trade reproduction for immediate survival.
Nov 25, 2009 |
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NY researchers breeding rare native ladybugs
(AP) -- A year after they launched a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen scientists in Oregon and Colorado.
Sep 04, 2009 |
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Climate change may wake up 'sleeper' weeds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change will cause some of Australia’s potential weeds to move south by up to 1000km, according to a report by scientists at CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Flagship.
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Evolution, ecosystems may buffer some species against climate change
(Physorg.com) -- Although ecologists expect many species will be harmed by climate change, some species could be buffered by their potential to evolve or by changes in their surrounding ecosystems.
Mar 05, 2009 |
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