In 1935, native beetles were wreaking havoc on Australia’s sugar cane crops in Queensland. The beetle larvae lived in the ...

Across the American West, outbreaks of locusts, grasshoppers, and crickets cost ranchers about $1.2 billion every year. The research suggests that building soil quality instead of relying on ...

Australia imported cane toads in 1935 to save sugarcane, but the plan failed and became one of the country’s worst ecological ...

Introduced to control rats, the Small Indian mongoose became one of conservation’s most infamous mistakes. Learn how this ...

Prepare for spring by repairing winter damage, incorporating cover crops and controlling early-emerging pests.

The drive to reduce the levels of pesticide usage with the arable sector continues apace. This development reflects two ...

Banker plants are valuable against common strawberry pests, such as aphids, thrips, and two-spotted spider mites. Cereal banker plants combat this scourge through an ongoing supply of non-pest aphids, ...

If you have pest problems, you must break the pest triangle. Three key items make the pest triangle — water, food and harborage. Take away one leg of the triangle ...

When you have pests, it is important to control them in a judicious manner. Integrated Pests Management, or IPM, is a process of pest control combining multiple steps, focusing on ...

Attacks of harmful insects in crop fields have now become one of the major problems in agriculture. In rice cultivation, this problem is mainly of ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued a Health Advisory regarding outbreaks of New World ...

Flies, ticks and other arthropods are serious pests in animal agriculture.