News tagged with ambrosia beetle
Beetle, fungus threaten Florida's avocado industry
May 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A little beetle could cause big problems for Florida's multimillion-dollar avocado industry.
Holy Guacamole: Researcher Tracks Invasive Beetle Threatening Florida's Avocados
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Feb 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher at North Carolina State University is tracking the movement of the Redbay Ambrosia beetle, an invasive insect that, if it spreads to southeast Florida, may severely affect the production of avocados, ...
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Tree-killing fungus officially named by scientists
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Jun 30, 2008 |
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The USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) today announced that an SRS scientist and other researchers have officially named the fungus responsible for killing redbay and other trees in the coastal plains of ...
Invasive beetle attacks redbay trees
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Jan 13, 2008 |
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A beetle imported from Asia is spreading around the southeast United States, leaving dead and dying redbay trees in its wake.
Laurel wilt of redbay and sassafras: Will avocados be next?
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Apr 02, 2008 |
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Scientists with the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS), Iowa State University, and the Florida Division of Forestry have provided the first description of a fungus responsible for the wilt of redbay trees ...
Beetle suspect in deaths of red bay trees
Feb 27, 2006 |
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Red bay trees across the southern United States are being threatened by a fungus introduced into the trees' stems by Asian Ambrosia beetles.
Beetle offers clue to ancient pest control
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Apr 22, 2008 |
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Israeli researchers said an ancient beetle provides clues to how the Bible's Joseph the Dreamer was able to keep the people of Egypt from starving.
Enzyme Discovery Could Lead to No Scent, No Sex for Japanese Beetle
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Jun 18, 2008 |
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If a male Japanese beetle is unable to detect the sex pheromone released by a female, he won't be able to locate her and reproduce. UC Davis researchers have discovered how a key enzyme interacts with those pheromones in ...
Beetle species rediscovered in Britain
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Mar 19, 2007 |
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The endangered short-necked oil beetle, long thought gone from Britain, was rediscovered recently by an entomologist at a site in southern county of Devon.
Researcher looking for way to minimize spread of mountain pine beetle
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Like a human being who, with a compromised immune system, is vulnerable to secondary diseases, jack pine trees ravaged by budworms may be more susceptible to an invasion of mountain pine beetles.
Mystery behind the strongest creature in the world
Mar 11, 2008 |
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The strongest creature in the world, the Hercules Beetle, has a colour-changing trick that scientists have long sought to understand. Research published today, Tuesday, 11 March, in the New Journal of Physics, details an inv ...
Small desert beetle found to engineer ecosystems
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Mar 27, 2008 |
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The catastrophic action a tiny beetle is wreaking on the deteriorating Chihuahuan desert will be revealed in the April edition of the Royal Entomological Society's Ecological Entomology journal.
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