Bt cotton is a genetically modified crop that produces an insecticidal protein toxic to the devastating cotton bollworm pest, reducing the need for broad-based sprays that can kill beneficial ...

Invasive insect species bring a host of health, social, ecological and economic consequences, including crop damage, food insecurity, biodiversity loss, ecosystem disruption, human disease ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Novozymes, the world’s largest industrial biotechnology company with U.S. headquarters in North Carolina, is branching out into “pest control agritechnology.” The Danish ...

Pests have always been a challenge for farmers because insects, fungi, bacteria, and rodents cause damage even on plants in natural ecosystems. Their impact in agriculture is of greater consequence ...

Learn the difference between harmful and beneficial pests to help boost soil biology in conservation cropping systems.

The use of agricultural chemicals to control insect pests and diseases in crops is the most effective method. However, with the increase of lifestyle diseases like cancer linked to the use of ...

Most gardeners reach for the spray bottle the moment they spot a pest. But that reflex may be doing more harm than good, including to the very garden they are trying to protect. According to the ...

Biologists have created the world's first gene drive system -- a mechanism for manipulating genetic inheritance -- in Drosophila suzukii, an agricultural pest that has invaded much of the United ...

A 2010 pilot effort to use the sterile insect technique (SIT) to control an endemic Mediterranean fruit fly pest population in the mandarin-growing region of the Neretva Valley in southern Croatia ...

Most people retreat at the sight of a wasp, yet University of Florida researchers’ discovery of two newly identified tiny ...