A government-funded campaign has begun spraying insecticides and biological agents on 240,000 acres of Maine's North Woods infested with spruce budworm, a voracious forest pest that killed millions of ...

While not toxic to people or most animals, pesticides to protect spruce and fir trees against budworm could also hurt the ...

Industrial fermentation using bacteria, yeast and other microbes to produce specific products has the potential to reduce ...

CSIRO scientists helped develop this insect-resistant cotton variety, using a gene derived from a soil bacteria, Bacillus ...

Dietary supplements form an increasing part of the American diet, yet broadly applicable multiresidue pesticide methods have not been evaluated for many of these supplements. A method for the analysis ...

Sod webworms are common lawn pests that require proper management. Learn to identify signs of sod webworm damage and the best ...

A new study shows that planting too much genetically modified corn designed to fight off a tough insect -- the corn rootworm -- especially in the eastern U.S. Corn Belt states may be causing more harm ...

Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Geology and Pedology, School of Chemistry, University of Murcia, Campus Universitario de Espinardo, E-30100 Murcia, Spain ...

The kinetic analysis of Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis (Bti) growth is often hindered by the impossibility of using conventional methods to measure biomass concentration in natural ...

The box tree moth is the latest invasive species to create problems for Southeast Michigan, which already wrestles with ...

An apple a day may keep the doctor away—but it could also mean you're consuming potentially harmful levels of toxic pesticides. Apples, along with grapes, strawberries, nectarines and spinach ...