Mar. 19, 2025 — Environmental conditions can cause damaging stress to plants, posing challenges for home gardeners and farmers. Therefore, early detection -- before leaves visibly discolor, wilt ...

Directly beneficial insects include pollinators and insect predators and parasites of pests. Other insects provide humans with material goods such as honey (honey bees), silk (silk moths), dyes ...

suzukii's defenses. "We set out to identify natural parasites of D. suzukii and learn how they overcome the pest's considerable defenses," says first author Lan Pang, a postdoctoral researcher at ...

Overuse of chemical pesticides has driven resistance in agricultural pests, including the adaptable two-spotted spider mite. Researchers have discovered novel elicitor proteins, Tet3 and Tet4, in mite ...

Scientists from the University of Tennessee have made a major breakthrough in understanding how tomato plants respond to root-knot nematodes, a parasitic pest that contributes to significant crop ...

Like mosquitoes, ticks are more seasonal than some parasites, but even a few warm days layered in with the cold can make some of these pests appear and wreak havoc. So, the moral of this story is ...

Parasitoid is the name given to insects that behave like parasites but always kill their host. Farmers take advantage of the fact that certain parasitoids naturally prey on particular species of crop ...

To control some of these pests, scientists are developing males that make sex ... Other researchers are experimenting with using venom toxins to control parasites that female insects spread through ...