The federal government has reaffirmed its commitment to fighting malaria with the launch of Nigeria’s first dual active-ingredient Long-Lasting Insecticidal Net (LLIN) manufacturing plant in Ogun ...
A formidable mosquito hunter with tiger-striped wings has been named Australia's top insect for 2025. The graphic flutterer dragonfly (Rhyothemis graphiptera) captured more than a quarter of all votes ...
A photographic census of Australia's native insects and other bugs — and their unwelcome invasive counterparts — has been launched across Australia. The national citizen science project, dubbed Bug ...
HOOD RIVER, Ore. — Christropher Adams, an Oregon State University entomologist, told growers and researchers there’s no silver bullet for spotted wing drosophila. “I’m hoping we can provide a bunch of ...
The Agricultural Social Entrepreneurship Foundation (ASEF International), in collaboration with the Rivers State Cooperative Federation (RCF) and Everand Business Support Services (EBS), has opened ...
DALLESPORT, Wash. — Folklore suggests that garlic keeps vampires away. It also works against the invasive insect spotted wing drosophila, said Bridget Hatfield, a research scientist with Kemin Crop ...
The Asian needle ant is a stinging insect native to China, Japan, and the Koreas. Experts with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service said the insect has been in the country since 1932 but ...
AMES, Iowa – A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a ...
From your picture (see below), it looks like something is eating the leaves between the veins (an inconvenient process called “skeletonization”). This is most likely caused by insects, and several ...
Dale-Ila Riggs and husband Don Miles own and run The Berry Patch in Stephentown, Rensselaer County. Farmers markets are in full swing outdoors. Local vendors fill streets, parks and lots with various ...
Recently we have been getting calls about raspberries and problems in growing them. This column has discussed a relatively new insect infecting raspberry plants, but feel this might be a good time to ...
William Hawkes received research funding from The Royal Society for his PhD. In 1950, ornithologists Elizabeth and David Lack were watching birds migrate through a Pyrenean mountain pass on the border ...