Targeting the bacteria inside insects for improved pest management
Any home gardener knows of the long-running battle against insect pests.
Any home gardener knows of the long-running battle against insect pests.
Plants & Animals
Aug 11, 2020
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Once introduced for biological pest control, Asian lady beetle Harmonia axyridis populations have been increasing uncontrollably in the US and Europe since the turn of the millennium. The species has been proliferating rapidly ...
Ecology
May 16, 2013
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Previous studies have shown that carnivores can have indirect positive effects on each other, which means that when one species is lost, others could soon follow. A team from the University of Exeter and the University of ...
Ecology
Feb 28, 2013
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New research by scientists at the University of California, Riverside shows that evolution genetic changes in populations over time can occur so rapidly in organisms that its impact on population numbers and ...
Ecology
Aug 15, 2011
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(AP) -- An insect no bigger than a comma is being studied as a natural predator that farmers could use instead of chemicals to protect the nation's soybean crop from aphids.
Ecology
Jul 9, 2009
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