As weevil populations continue to press northward and eastward in Western Canada, canola growers will instead want to ...

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What are the best ant killers? Like other insects, ants are most active during the warmer months. They’re attracted to sweet sap found in many gardens, which is why they’re commonly found in plant ...

Honey bees, Apis mellifera had great importance in agricultural fields, as a pollinator for many major crops and wild plants around the world, and considered one of the important components for ...

1 Cotton Research Program, National Center of Agronomic Research, Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire. 2 Faculty of Science and Technology, Alassane Ouattara University, Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire. Cotton cultivation ...

Blister beetles are common in Arizona and secrete a toxic substance called cantharidin that causes skin blistering. These beetles are attracted to flowering plants, crops like alfalfa, and areas with ...

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the July 2025 print edition of Greenhouse Management under the headline “Managing mealybugs.” Figure 1. While all scale insects feed on plant sap ...

Mosquitoes can quickly make a pleasantly warm evening unbearable—so much so that you might decide to stay inside rather than deal with the annoying, biting pests. You might think that a bug zapper is ...

This chapter examines the evidence on agronomic and environmental effects of currently commercialized genetically engineered (GE) crops. The analysis in this chapter is retrospective, looking at the ...

“The hazards posed by neonicotinoid pesticides to pollinators have been established by a number of high impact research articles for nearly a decade. There is no question that restricting their use ...

gDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA hParasitology and Vector Biology Laboratory (UNLV PARAVEC Lab), University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA ...