Weed control is essential in apple orchards because weeds compete with trees for nutrients, water and sunlight, which can ...

Disturbances such as harvesting often interfere with the ecological processes that lead to the biological control of insect pests. For willows, grown as short-rotation coppice crops harvested every ...

It has long been a goal of farm policy to manage production in such a way that expensive off-farm inputs and negative environmental consequences can be simultaneously minimized. One generalized ...

Drawing on their expertise in control systems and cell biology, Johns Hopkins University researchers are setting out to design and test self-directed microscopic warriors that can locate and ...

An article published in the journal Insects determines with precision the dispersal range of a type of wasp that neutralizes the Brown stink bug, Euschistus heros, a major soybean pest in Brazil and ...

ANN ARBOR--When a bird swoops down and grabs a caterpillar devouring your backyard garden, you might view it as a clear victory for natural pest control. But what if that caterpillar is infected with ...

An enemy is an enemy is an enemy, but some natural enemies are better than others at controlling prey populations and some enemies are ineffective, even though they are specialized, according to a ...

It’s full speed ahead for the U.S. Navy’s state-of-the-art capability for detecting biological warfare agents onboard and at sea.

When a bird swoops down and grabs a caterpillar devouring your backyard garden, you might view it as a clear victory for natural pest control. But what if that caterpillar is infected with larvae from ...