Ivory Coast's cotton industry was plunged into a crisis in 2022 as crops were devastated by the jassid as these insects are voracious pests. Today, the industry is still trying to recover and ...

The pink bollworm has brought down India’s cotton production by a quarter in the last decade. While a few seed companies have ...

Prairie crop producers need to focus on conserving beneficial insects while simultaneously managing pest insects. Many of ...

(The Center Square) – Paying into a fund monitoring an eradicated insect that nearly ... the program to monitor cotton crops and respond quickly to any signs of the pest. Last year, the ...

Confined field trials of BT cotton at five sites in Zimbabwe show positive results giving more scope for the country to scale ...

From insect larvae that keep munching on pesticide-laden cotton in the U.S. to head lice that won't wash out of children's hair, pests are slowly developing genetic shields that enable them to ...

The sterile insect technique is an environmentally-friendly insect pest control method involving the mass-rearing and sterilization, using radiation, of a target pest, followed by the systematic ...

Photo by John E. Woodmansee June 21, 2024 I occasionally write about insect pests and what to do about them. However, I also know that not everyone is an entomologist, and it might be good to take a ...