Plant diversity has long been regarded as key to stable and resilient ecosystems. However, until now, little has been understood about why it has different effects in agricultural areas than in ...

Agreement marks the first application of Fulcrum® technology in insects, supporting proactive & effective pest control ...

The Insect Pest Control Subprogramme of the Joint FAO/IAEA Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture plays a key role in the dissemination of nuclear and related technology information ...

Creamy-colored and just a couple of centimeters long, the cotton bollworm doesn’t look like much. But around the world, this highly mobile moth has farmers breaking out in a sweat. Females can lay ...

Insects have changed very little over the millions of years they’ve spent evolving. The more interesting story may be why so many of our responses to them have remained the same. Many of the pests we ...

A Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service entomologist is studying how a combination of beneficial insects can help control the pests in greenhouses. Erfan Vafaie, AgriLife Extension program specialist ...

An alert is being issued for an insect pest that’s threatening pastures and hayfields across a wide swath of the Southeast ...

Debra Inglis provides an update on new monitoring and control tools designed for a major insect vector of grapevine viruses in Canadian vineyards ...

Insect pests, such as maize stemborers and fall armyworm, increasingly challenge food production around the world. Huge demands for crops have meant agricultural systems have simplified and frequently ...