Invasive green bugs are not welcome guests in Texas
An unwelcome guest has arrived in Texas and, if left unchecked, could pose challenges to the state's agricultural industry.
Ecology
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Page 13: Research news on invasive species
Invasive species are non-native organisms that establish self-sustaining populations and spread beyond their initial introduction sites, causing or likely to cause significant ecological, economic, or health impacts. Research on invasive species examines pathways of introduction, propagule pressure, life-history traits that facilitate invasion (e.g., high reproductive rate, broad ecological tolerance), and interactions with native communities, including competition, predation, hybridization, and pathogen transmission. The topic also encompasses invasion stages (transport, introduction, establishment, spread), invasion ecology theory (e.g., enemy release, biotic resistance), risk assessment, and management strategies such as prevention, early detection, rapid response, and long-term control or eradication.
Fruit fly tests in Greece target invasive species threat
In a small persimmon orchard in northern Greece, scientists carefully open paper bags to release thousands of flies, in an experiment aimed at blunting the destructive impact of invasive new species.
Agriculture
Sep 15, 2025
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Invasive plants are rapidly changing tropic ecosystems across three continents
Invasive species are reshaping ecosystems and local people's relationship with nature in the tropics, a study led by Danish researchers Ninad Avinash Mungi and Jens Christian Svenning from Aarhus University shows. The research ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2025
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Invasive plants and bacteria threaten Iraq's Euphrates
Iraq's Euphrates River is running at historically low levels as the drought-stricken country faces its worst water scarcity in living memory.
Environment
Sep 10, 2025
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Plants that dominate at home often thrive as invasive species abroad, study suggests
The spread of species beyond their native habitat is a human-made environmental change on a global scale. Among vascular plants, over 16,000 species have now permanently settled in foreign countries. The majority of these ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2025
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New invasive pest spreading rapidly in Georgia, state officials warn
Georgia agriculture officials are warning farmers to be on the lookout for an invasive pest that is spreading rapidly in the state, posing a threat to cotton and other major crops.
Ecology
Sep 1, 2025
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Fungi found on dying buckthorn could control the highly invasive species
University of Minnesota researchers are studying the use of fungi as a tool to control invasive buckthorn, a problematic species that crowds out native plants and persistently degrades forests in the Midwest and Northeast.
Plants & Animals
Aug 27, 2025
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Research disproves advantages of exotic tree species in forestry
An international research team, including experts from the Ecological-Botanical Garden (ÖBG) at the University of Bayreuth, has demonstrated in a new study that native tree species in Argentina grow at a similar rate to introduced ...
Ecology
Aug 25, 2025
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Hawai'i-grown lemons and limes ready for export
Researchers from the USDA's Agricultural Research Service are opening new markets for America's fruit growers. Fruit flies are major economic and quarantine pests that impact fresh fruit production and impede international ...
Agriculture
Aug 21, 2025
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Wasp species previously unknown in US discovered
Oak gall wasps and their predators don't have the panache of butterflies, but they're attracting growing interest among both scientists and naturalists.
Plants & Animals
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