In mid September I was walking on the CU campus when I noticed a teeming population of weevils on a small cluster of Canada thistles. Almost half of them were amplectic. Several hours later, when I ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Federal officials have approved turning loose a non-native insect to feed on an invasive thistle that sprouts in everything from rangelands to vineyards to wilderness areas, mainly ...

Scientists working for government breed biological control agents in lab to take on species choking native wildlife ...

University of Wyoming researchers are studying whether applying an insecticide early in the season and herbicide at the same time controls alfalfa weevils and helps prevent a field from becoming a ...

Area research institutions are revving up their studies in an effort to find a way to stop a bug that has been destroying Canary Island date palm trees in La Jolla and elsewhere in San Diego County in ...

Sweetpotato farmers may soon have higher yields of the root crop after University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) ...

Q: When do agave weevils turn into grubs so I can time the treatment to the soil with a pesticide at the correct time? A: Agave weevil control is done from about the middle of April until the middle ...

CARBONDALE, Colorado – Pitkin County has enlisted a new player in its efforts to control unwanted, noxious weeds. Thursday, county Land Manager Crystal Yates-White and her crew set free roughly 250 ...

UW graduate student Micah McClure examines a vial of insects he netted in research plots at the James C. Hageman Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension Center near Lingle. The insects are ...