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A team of researchers at Montana State University analyzed environmental and habitat conditions across four states in the Pacific Northwest to create a county-by-county risk rating for establishment of...

In Egypt, the Mediterranean fruit fly ( Ceratitis capitata ) is a major pest of a wide variety of fruit crops. A new guide in the open-access Journal of Integrated Pest Management details the fly's life...

A survey of corn farmers in Iowa shows which insect pests are of most concern and that most are not seeing failures in management methods such as Bt crops. But they do look to IPM and extension agents...

Genes that make mosquitoes glow under ultraviolet light help scientists measure the spread of transgenic mosquitoes after they've been released to suppress wild populations of vector mosquito species....

Entomologists who collaborated to create Cicada Safari, a mobile app to collect citizen observations of periodical cicadas, hoped they could get 50,000 observations during the Brood X cicada emergence...

The U.S. Navy's Environmental and Preventive Medicine Units work as “mini-CDCs” to protect public health for Sailors and Marines around the world. That includes managing threats of vector-borne disease....

Efforts to control the moth Lymantria dispar received a boost more than 30 years ago when the fungus Entomophaga maimaiga , native to Japan, was discovered in the United States. Since then, the fungus...

Every day, independent consultants and scouts comb through farm fields, swinging sampling nets to monitor pests. A new study of the data generated by commercial sampling suggests that repeatability is...

The Asian longhorned tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis), an invasive species in the U.S., is a threat to cattle and other livestock. A new study finds several pesticides used to manage other tick species...

After earning her bachelor's and master's in biology at the Northern Michigan University and her Ph.D. in biological sciences focused on ecology and evolution at the University of Alberta (Canada) in 2019,...