Smart strategies help farmers reduce insect management expenses while maintaining corn yield protection and profitability.

Using native biological control alternatives is more environmentally friendly than importing other pest control agents." Known as entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN), the juvenile stage of these tiny ...

Harmful insect pests can cause billions of dollars’ worth of damage to food and livestock and transmit diseases such as malaria or the Zika virus. Finding ways to effectively control these insect ...

The Insect Pest Control Subprogramme of the Joint FAO/IAEA Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture plays a key role in the dissemination of nuclear and related technology information ...

Bats such as the common noctule consume pest insects over intensively managed arable land and thereby support sustainable ...

Pesticides — even organic varieties — are not the safest, healthiest or most effective natural pest control options. The addition of certain plants from the list below to your garden or farm will ...

The problem of insect pests is not a new one, and there are many historical examples of the devastation they can inflict on both human health and agriculture worldwide. Over time, various efforts have ...

Researchers from Agriculture and Agri-food Canada are working with nanotechnology and RNA to develop new pest insect control ...

Combining genetically engineered cotton plants that kill caterpillars with the controlled release of sterile moths from airplanes has produced a new and highly successful approach to dramatically ...

There are ways to avoid them. Experts issue warning about insects that could wreak havoc on US this winter: 'A nuisance pest' ...