News tagged with pest management

Integrated pest management recommendations for the southern pine beetle

The southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann, is a chronic insect pest within pine forests in the southeastern United States. Under favorable environmental and host conditions, it is an agg ...

Biology / Ecology

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Best management practices for invasive crane flies in northeastern United States sod production

A new study recently published in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management (JIPM) explains the best management practices for consideration and adoption by sod producers in the northeastern U.S.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IPM decreased pesticide use in University of Florida housing

A new study recently published in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management (JIPM) shows that from 2003 to 2008, the use of insecticide active ingredients was reduced by about 90% in University of Florida housing buildings after ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists refute Greenpeace claim that genetically modified corn caused new insect pest

An article in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Integrated Pest Management (JIPM) refutes claims by Greenpeace Germany that the western bean cutworm (WBC), Striacosta albicosta (Smith), is "a new plant pest" that wa ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 4

Researchers attack a stinker of a pest; iPhone users can help track the invader

A new hobo pest -- the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) -- is pigging out on many of North America's most important crops, posing an unprecedented threat to U.S. agriculture, say experts.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

50 years of cereal leaf beetle management research

A new, open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management provides a review of cereal leaf beetle biology, past and present management practices, and current research being conducted.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pecan ipmPIPE: Harnessing the Internet for stakeholders in production agriculture

A new, open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management examines the Pecan Pest Information Platform for Extension and education (PIPE), a program that provides a new informatics resource that targets 5,000 ...

Biology / Other

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Agricultural pest management program efficiency challenged by information diffusion barriers among farmers

While international pest management programs have long relied on farmer cooperation to spread pest control information at larger scales, a study by French researchers published in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Bi ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biology, crop injury, and management of thrips in cotton seedlings

A new, open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management provides a brief summary of the various species of thrips present in U.S. cotton, their plant host range and injury to cotton, a general description of thr ...

Biology / Other

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Legume ipmPIPE: A new option for generating, summarizing and disseminating real-time pest data

A new, open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management describes the background, usage, and value of the Legume Integrated Pest Management Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education (ipmPIPE). The go ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Soybean rust PIPE: Past, present and future

A new, open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management describes the origin, function, successes, limitations, and future of the Soybean Rust Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education (PIPE).

Biology / Other

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Forest fungus factory: New technology fights hemlock pest

An invasive insect, hemlock woolly adelgid, has been marching north along the Appalachians, killing almost every hemlock tree in its path. The adelgid has devastated forests in Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. The pest recently ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

California uses wasps in battle against apple moths

California agricultural officials will release hundreds of tiny, stinger-less wasps this month to combat the fruit- and leaf-eating light-brown apple moth, in a move to find alternatives to aerial pesticide spraying.

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

'Fly Man' researches pesky pests on Alcatraz

When forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey leaves the UC Davis Department of Entomology for his bimonthly trips to Alcatraz Island, it's not to sightsee.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0