Officials in Kansas have confirmed that an invasive pest with a hunger for some of the state’s trees has spread to new ...

A group of scientists are researching ways to limit the spread of two insects that could destroy stored grain. Kansas State ...

The emerald ash borer; Firewood of all hardwood (non-coniferous) species; Ash (Fraxinus spp.) species: rooted plants, green lumber with any bark, live edge, or wane, and other material living, dead, ...

(Beyond Pesticides, October 2, 2024) A comprehensive literature review in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety links a heightened risk of spontaneous abortion (SAB) with pesticide exposure. “The ...

The stalk rot fungi typically survive in corn residue on the soil surface and invade the base of the corn stalk either directly or through wounds made by corn borers, hail damage, or mechanical injury ...

Some corn lines also withstood the insect pests' feeding damage ... of Beauveria killed 12 to 58 percent of European corn borer and fall armyworm caterpillars. However, as with dent corn, the ...

Dr Ofosu explained that cowpeas typically matured in eight weeks, an indication that farmers ought to spray their crops at least eight times to fight insects, however with the PBR cowpeas, farmers ...