Central/eastern Oregon: Water your plants every six to eight weeks with a deep soaking to keep them from drying out. Western ...

Biological control involves the utilisation of natural predators, parasites and pathogens to suppress pest populations, while Integrated Pest Management (IPM) combines biological methods with cultural ...

Using other insects to control pests like greenfly has been a massive success story for farming, reducing the use of chemical ...

Hoping to tag-team invading insect and plant species with the oldest and newest in scientific approaches, researchers from 22 nations will gather Oct. 14-16 in Montpellier, France, for a symposium on ...

Disturbances such as harvesting often interfere with the ecological processes that lead to the biological control of insect pests. For willows, grown as short-rotation coppice crops harvested every ...

Though often perceived as an environmentally-risky practice, biological control of invasive species can restore crop yields, ease land pressure and contribute to forest conservation. This paper ...

Exotic species commonly invade areas of conservation concern. Such species may threaten native species or ecosystems, either attacking individual species, or changing ecosystem characteristics in ways ...

Researchers from INRA, CIRAD, CEA, the University of Montpellier, and Chicago and Vanderbilt Universities in the United States have developed an innovative method for analyzing the genome of the ...

Viruses are everywhere. They affect all forms of life, from complex mammals down to the mere fungus. We may not give much thought to fungal viruses, or mycoviruses, but new research suggests they ...

An international team of scientists, involving entomologists, conservation biologists, agro-ecologists and geographers, has just revealed how on-farm biological control can slow the pace of tropical ...