"Probably isn't [spreading] on its own." Expert issues stark warning about dangerous invasive pest found across the US: ...

RICHARDTON, N.D. -- Vern Tormaschy was putting on anhydrous ammonia, preparing ground for the Mott variety of spring wheat in 2012. Going to Mott is a strategy that worked in 2011 after losing half of ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Montana State University says it might have an answer to a $100-million-a-year problem for the state's wheat farmers. Researchers report they've identified an insecticide to kill ...

Hemingford, Neb. – Aside from the recent rain, there has also been another interesting problem we have encountered around Hemingford. Working on harvest I have become very familiar with certain ...

The parasitoid, which is also a native species, has a different life cycle than the wheat stem sawfly. It has two generations ...

GREAT FALLS – Montana State University researchers may have come up with a solution to a $100-million-a-year problem for the state’s wheat farmers. Researchers report they’ve identified an insecticide ...

Gardeners know that amidst the promises of each new growing season come its challenges, usually in the form of weather or pests. A common insect pest this time of year are sawfly larvae, which feed on ...

An invasive species of insect is putting ash trees in Northern Ireland under threat, ecologists have warned. If you have visited areas around the tree-lined towpath which leads from central Belfast to ...

Hey and Steer 1 have expressed the belief that nicotine acts mainly as an ovicide when used for controlling apple sawfly, though it is also toxic to the larvæ. They quote, however, other authors who ...

The gooseberry sawfly is an ugly sight. What, however, is the organic solution? I wrote recently in Thorny Problems about this persistent pest, the larvae of which can strip the leaves of gooseberry ...

Some parts of the forests in Southeast Alaska are a little off color. Hemlock trees are turning yellow and brown from a sawfly outbreak. But scientists say there’s not much to worry about. The U.S.