News flash gardeners. We have a new, comprehensive resource to help manage bugs in the vegetable garden. Susan Mulvihill, my Spokesman-Review colleague and co-author with me of the “Northwest Garden’s ...

An international research team led by Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and the Joint FAO/IAEA Center of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture has identified the gene responsible for a ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Vladimir Tarakanov, IAEA Office of Public Information and ...

The sterile insect technique is an environmentally-friendly insect pest control method involving the mass-rearing and sterilization, using radiation, of a target pest, followed by the systematic ...

Summer is the “time of the garden,” when flowers are riotously blooming and fruit and vegetables are ripening. However, you may find you’re not the only one enjoying the fruits of your labors. In ...

You can have a beautiful, productive garden while working with nature to manage insect pests. As you incorporate various eco-friendly pest management strategies, you will encourage songbirds, ...

Left to its own defenses, a farm field growing a variety of plants tends to attract fewer insect pests than a field growing just one type of crop. While scientists and farmers have noted that ...

Global warming could increase both the number and appetite of insect pests, new research finds, which could pose a serious threat to global crop production. The study finds that global warming of 2C ...

This section contains information on a number of common insect pest species that can be found in UK homes and cause damage to food, furniture, clothes and plants. Each page offers information on how ...

THE first edition of the author's “Insects Injurious to Staple Crops” was published ten years ago. The advances made during the past decade have been such that it was considered necessary to rewrite ...

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