Greenhouse growers are embracing eco-friendly pest control to maintain healthy crops without chemicals. Strategies like beneficial insects, companion planting, and organic sprays help reduce ...

Cotton pests can impact yield and fiber quality. Learn how IPM strategies help growers protect crops all season long.

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

Kiwi growers face pests and diseases that threaten yields and fruit quality. Combining early detection, biological controls, and cultural practices helps protect crops sustainably. From leafroller ...

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 ...

The cotton jassid — an invasive insect that feeds on cotton and other plants, explained here by Crop Science U.S. — has been ...

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 ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 2, 2021) Cover crops create habitat that draw in pest predators and help mitigate crop injury, finds research published in the journals Agroecosystems and Biological ...

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 team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has conducted an analysis of the system-wide costs and benefits of using engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) on crop-based ...