New research to identify and manage devastating pest insects
Technology that was first used to distinguish healthy tissues from cancerous ones in humans has been successfully used to identify insects.
Technology that was first used to distinguish healthy tissues from cancerous ones in humans has been successfully used to identify insects.
Plants & Animals
Apr 29, 2021
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I was lying on the jungle floor of a Malaysian rainforest with a wasp nest dangling 10 cm from my nose. I had painted each wasp with a few colored spots so that I could tell one from another.
Plants & Animals
Apr 29, 2021
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Mediterranean fruit flies, an agricultural pest, have been modified in a lab experiment so more males are born than females, reducing their numbers.
Plants & Animals
Apr 23, 2021
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New research by a team at Resources for the Future (RFF) has found that at least 27% of new pests in the United States were initially detected by members of the general public. The study, which was published today in the ...
Ecology
Apr 14, 2021
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Millions of years ago, aphid-like insects called whiteflies incorporated a portion of DNA from plants into their genome. A Chinese research team, publishing March 25th in the journal Cell, reveals that whiteflies use this ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2021
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CABI-led Plantwise plant clinics can help promote more sustainable ways to fight crop pests and diseases in Rwanda and Zambia—such as the fall armyworm—with the judicial use of pesticides within Integrated Pest Management ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2021
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As winter phases into spring across the U.S., gardeners are laying in supplies and making plans. Meanwhile, as the weather warms, common garden insects such as bees, beetles and butterflies will emerge from underground burrows ...
Ecology
Mar 22, 2021
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Pheromones that interfere with insect mating patterns, crops that are grown together with others and fields edged with wildflowers are just some of the techniques being developed by European scientists to defend crops from ...
Ecology
Mar 17, 2021
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New collaborative research from Northwestern University and Lund University may have people heading to their backyard instead of the store at the outset of this year's mosquito season.
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2021
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A recent study finds that the invasive spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) prefers to lay its eggs in places that no other spotted wing flies have visited. The finding raises questions about how the flies can tell ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 15, 2021
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