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Bean leaves don’t let the bedbugs bite

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 18, 2013

A centuries-old remedy of spreading kidney bean leaves  on the bedroom floor traps the biting insects

Scientists at University of California Irvine and University of Kentucky are trying to mimic a traditional Balkan bedbug remedy to help fight the bedroom scourge. Their work was motivated by a centuries-old remedy for bedbugs formerly used in Bulgaria, Serbia and other southeast European countries. Kidney bean leaves were strewn on the floor next to

Livestock

Celestial guidance for rolling balls of dung

By Aaas Release February 6, 2013

You might expect dung beetles to keep their “noses to the ground,” but they are actually incredibly attuned to the sky. A report published online on January 24 in Current Biology, shows that even on the darkest of nights, African ball-rolling insects are guided by the soft glow of the Milky Way. While birds and

News

Headless ladybug surfaces in Montana

By Reuters November 9, 2012

Sleepy Hollow has its headless horseman and now Montana has a headless ladybug. The newly discovered insect tucks its head into its throat — making it not only a new species but an entirely new genus, or larger classification of plants and animals. Ross Winton captured the insect in 2009 in traps he set in

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Don’t paint all insects with the same brush

By Alexis Kienlen August 21, 2012

Dozens of different beneficial species, including beetles, may be in your fields  chowing down root maggots and other pests

It’s easy to forget about the beneficial insects in your crops when you are focused on eradicating pests of all kinds. “When you calculate the economic loss from your pest insect, add about 20 per cent to it, and think about the beneficials that are in there,” said Jim Bratch, an entomologist with Alberta Agriculture

Crops, News

Trials start of GM wheat that terrifies aphids

By Reuters April 7, 2012

Field trials are underway in England of a genetically modified (GM) wheat that strikes fear into aphids and attracts a deadly predator to devour them, providing an alternative to the insecticides now used to control the crop pest. The wheat emits a pheromone which aphids release when they are under attack to create panic and

Country Crossroads

Check Plants Regularly For Pests — Especially Ones That Were Brought In For Winter

By Albert Parsons November 17, 2011

FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR Gardeners who have houseplant collections must be vigilant during the winter months to catch any insect infestation before the insects get out of hand and do irreparable plant damage. A single aphid might get into the house before freeze-up or a few may have hitched a ride inside on some vegetables or plants

Crops

Tiny Wasp Used To Avert Disaster Farmers Never See

By Helen Mcmenamin October 27, 2011

CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR / LETHBRIDGE You may never have seen it, it doesn t have a common name, it didn t cost you a cent, but it may be saving you thousands in lost yield and pesticide cost. Tetrastichus julis (T. julis) is a tiny wasp that feeds on the cereal leaf beetle, a Eurasian pest

Livestock

Bat Disease Could Mean Massive Farm Losses

May 12, 2011

U.S. agriculture could lose up to $53 billion per year from a disease threatening the North American bat population, according to a recent study in the journalScience. White-nose syndrome – so named for the white fuzzy growth it causes on bats’ muzzles – was first detected in New York state in 2006 and has spread

News

Experts Find Bacteria That Help Pests Change Colour

By Tan Ee Lyn November 25, 2010

Scientists in Japan and France have identified a bacterium which appears to turn red plant lice green, enabling them to evade predators and thrive on crops. The discovery has important implications for pest control as these lice, or aphids, are among the most destructive insects in temperate regions, sucking on the sap of cultivated plants.

Other livestock

Grasshoppers Important To Migratory Birds

By Canadian Cattlemen’s May 13, 2010

May 8 is International Migratory Bird Day. Created in 1993, International Migratory Bird Day focuses attention on the remarkable migration of 90 per cent of Canada’s birds back from the southern United States, Mexico and Central America. Unfortunately, many of those bird populations are in decline. The reasons are varied and sometimes uncertain, but mitigated

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle fall on profit-taking

U.S. grains: Soybeans rebound as market weighs China prospects

B.C. ostrich owner condemns violence near embattled farm

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