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Whiteflies sabotage alarm system of plant in distress
Nov 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When spider mites attack a bean plant, the plant responds by producing odours which attract predatory mites. These predatory mites then exterminate the spider mite population, thus acting ...
Spider mite predators serve as biological control
Nov 02, 2009 |
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The control of spider mites, which damage tree leaves, reduce fruit quality and cost growers millions of dollars in the use of pesticide and oil spraying, is being biologically controlled in Pennsylvania apple ...
Bees Throw Out Mites
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Honey bees are now fighting back aggressively against Varroa mites, thanks to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) efforts to develop bees with a genetic trait that allows them to more easily find the mites ...
Bee disease a mystery
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Jun 30, 2008 |
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Scientists are one step closer to understanding the recent demise of billions of honey bees after making an important discovery about the transmission of a common bee virus. Deformed wing virus (DWV) is passed between adult ...
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New research may lead to new ways to control honeybee parasite
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ground-breaking discoveries by Michigan State University researchers could help protect honeybees from deadly parasites that have devastated commercial colonies.
Dust mite levels in Sydney are seasonal
Nov 26, 2007 |
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House dust mite (HDM) allergen levels in Sydney beds are determined by the season, with new research discovering fluctuations of such magnitude between summer and autumn levels they may be sufficient to influence asthma symptoms ...
Genome mapped for mite-borne typhus
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May 10, 2007 |
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Researches at Uppsala University, in collaboration with a Korean research team, have mapped and analyzed the genome for mite-borne typhus. A highly unexpected finding, now being published in the American journal Proceedings of ...
More than drought affecting wheat yields
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Jun 06, 2006 |
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U.S. agronomists say wheat producers have more than a drought affecting their yields this year, as various viruses invade crops.
Wheat curl mite might require non-chemical control
Mar 31, 2009 |
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The wheat curl mite is a minute menace that wreaks havoc on the region's wheat crop; but it has no enemies currently that can take it out. That doesn't mean Texas AgriLife Research scientists aren't trying to find ways to ...
Asian bees threaten Australia
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Jun 15, 2007 |
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Four swarms of Asian bees found in Cairns, Australia, may pose a serious threat to the country's honey bee population.
A new parasite has been discovered in black green lizards from the Iberian Peninsula
Apr 03, 2009 |
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An international team of scientists has discovered a new acarine species (Ophionyssus schreibericolus) that lives off black green lizards from the Iberian Peninsula. This involves the first recording of the O ...
Fungus Foot Baths Could Save Bees
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Jul 28, 2008 |
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One of the biggest world wide threats to honey bees, the varroa mite, could soon be about to meet its nemesis. Researchers at the University of Warwick are examining naturally occurring fungi that kill the varroa mite. They ...
Of mites, muck and the rise and fall of the Inca
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Mar 26, 2007 |
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Scientists have discovered a way to better explore the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Inca - thanks to a tiny mite found preserved in the mud at the bottom of a sacred Peruvian lake.
Cross kingdom conflicts on a beetle's back
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Oct 02, 2008 |
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Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of Madison-Wisconsin have discovered how beetles and bacteria form a symbiotic and mutualistic relationship—one that ultimately results in the destruction ...
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