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Japanese beetles and cucumber beetles are another widespread challenge in Northeast Ohio. Adult beetles skeletonize leaves and flowers, but the best opportunity for control comes when they are ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Released into the sugarcane fields by drones, the wasps track their prey with ruthless efficiency. Guided by ...

They may be tiny but they grow into a mighty army of pests. Fall army worms (FAW) continue to be a bane to corn farming and its production in Ghana after invading the country 8 years ago. Originally ...

“Is there a natural or biological way to control this pest?” is a frequent question when dealing with insect pests. When I think of biological control, I think of the “three Ps” – Predators, Parasites ...

The predatory mirid bug, Nesidiocoris tenuis, which preys on agricultural pests, is used as a biological control agent. This discovery has significant implications for biological control which ...

The ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru recently organized the XXXI Annual Review Meeting of All India Coordinated Research Project on Biological Control of Crop Pests.

Biological control is the management of pests and their damage by the beneficial action of parasites (parasitoids), pathogens, and predators. These beneficial organisms, collectively, are named ...

Ghana’s agricultural produce can attract premium prices, derive huge foreign earnings and help the country to reduce agriculture emissions, if the use of biological control (Bio-control) of pest and ...

The federal government earmarked Rs 368.7 million for a new project to control biological cotton pests in Pakistan with emphasis on mealy bugs. According to Planning Commission sources, it envisages ...