News tagged with grubs
Protecting Christmas from Christmas grubs
Across northern Wisconsin, many of the state's Christmas tree growers struggle to protect their trees from an insect pest known as the white grub, which lurks in the soil, feeds on tree roots and destroys the crop.
Dec 02, 2010 |
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Secularization of suicide meant callous mockery of writers' deaths
Poet Virginia Woolf dressed in overcoat, pockets filled with stones, walked into a river in 1941 and drowned. Two decades later, novelist Ernest Hemingway put his shotgun to his head and pulled the trigger. Journalist and ...
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Aug 05, 2010 |
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Guam rhino beetles got rhythm
In May 2008 the island of Guam became a living laboratory for scientists as they attached acoustic equipment to coconut trees in order to listen for rhinoceros beetles. A grant from USDA IPM allowed Richard Mankin, a recognized ...
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Dropbox co-founder aims to build his own Google, not sell to them
Four years ago, Drew Houston was just another super-smart hacker with ambitions of starting his own company.
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Perth slowly devouring its black Cockatoo species
WA Museum’s ornithology curator says black cockatoos, which once flocked to the Swan Coastal Plain in tens of thousands, could be extinct within 50 years.
Jan 05, 2012 |
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'Sabre-toothed squirrel': First known mammalian skull from Late Cretaceous discovered in South America
Paleontologist Guillermo Rougier, Ph.D., professor of anatomical sciences and neurobiology at the University of Louisville, and his team have reported their discovery of two skulls from the first known mammal ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Inadequate supply of protein building blocks may explain pregnancy failures in bovine cloning experiments
Amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, are essential to support the normal growth of a developing embryo and the placenta. An insufficient supply of amino acids in the mother's uterus caused by abnormal ...
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Biocontrol of sweetpotato weevils
The warm humid conditions of the tropics make it tough for farmers to keep their crops pest free. For sweetpotato growers in Micronesia, the sweetpotato weevil seems to defy efforts to control its population. ...
Aug 04, 2011 |
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A real-life zombie story in the life of bugs
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in Biology Letters, a page of science fiction comes to life in a real-life zombie scenario between the ladybug and a parasitical wasp called Dinocampus coccinell ...
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Seed mixtures and insurance pest management: Future norm in the Corn Belt?
As the use of biotechnology increases and more companies move forward with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's approval to begin full-scale commercialization of seed mixtures in transgenic insecticidal corn, many researchers ...
May 05, 2011 |
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Gas versus groceries
A University of Alberta researcher says grocery retailers need to take heed that a jump at the pumps will be a blow to their bottom line. Alberta School of Business professor Yu Ma notes that if stores want ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Mar 10, 2011 |
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'Bug Mac' and lovely 'grub': food of the future
Dutch student Walinka van Tol inspects the worm protruding from a half-eaten chocolate praline she's holding, steels herself with a shrug, then pops it into her mouth.
Jan 23, 2011 |
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Citrus root signals produce better biocontrol
Substances released into the soil by citrus tree roots when chewed on by insect pests could lead to new ways of improving the effectiveness of roundworm "first responders."
Jan 21, 2011 |
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