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The U.S. Forest Service notes that while these ants are "not terribly aggressive," their sting can lead to "life-threatening ...

Invasive ferns have made some freshwater ponds look like lawns, threatening other life in the bodies of water. Mark ...

Plant nutrients are essential to plant growth. But like most things, too much of a good thing can be bad. Once the growing ...

There’s nothing more disappointing than going to pick a yummy squash and instead finding your squash plants in distress, ...

That’s just a clever ruse to keep you from getting too close. This is the adult female squash borer moth. And she’s on the hunt for cucurbits. She’ll lay her eggs on the stem at the base of the plant ...

Some snout moths, such as the rice stem borer, are also of agricultural importance, being among the most destructive pests in rice cultivation across South and Southeast Asia. The researchers ...

You also may see the borer, which looks like a creamy white grub with a brown head. The adult female moths lay small reddish-brown disc-like eggs (about 1mm in diameter) singly at the base of each ...

However, towards the end of summer, the larvae will ruin the fruit by entering it near the stem. Each year ... Unlike its cousin, the peach twig borer, this tiny moth damages the groundnut in the ...

A native to Nebraska, the wheat stem sawfly has become a big ... and the northeastern U.S. “The European corn borer is a small, light-colored moth with small whitish larvae who have shiny ...

Siddipet: Solar-powered light traps are proving effective in combating the stem borer menace at the moth stage without using a pesticide. Farmers in the district, who cultivated Yasangi paddy, were ...