Parasitic weeds are ruthless freeloaders, stealing nutrients from crops and devastating harvests. But what if farmers could ...

Parasitic weeds are ruthless freeloaders, stealing nutrients from crops and devastating harvests. But what if farmers could trick these invaders into ...

The Department of Conservation (DOC) said Cuscuta campestris - also known as golden dodder - was known to be only in north ...

Australian mistletoe has gone from being viewed as a parasite harming native trees to being a Robin Hood figure in the ...

The organization Practical Farmers of Iowa is helping urban crop growers use beneficial insects to control pests, boost soil ...

A now-deleted Reddit account wrote under the original comment: “You’re most likely to have some sort of accident during ...

An exhibit that encompasses an ecological record of Monhegan Island is on view now at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and ...

A large digger isn’t something usually seen in a protected wetland, but it’s proven vital in a collaborative effort to remove an invasive weed species. The invasive plant Cuscuta campestris – also ...

I love, for example, the sulphur-yellow crocuses flowering their socks off beneath the garden’s beech trees, the gilded ...

Cuscuta is a parasitic plant that sucks nutrients from other plants and has the potential to smother native plant species. It ...

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on giving.

Spanning more than 226 million hectares of forests with over 8,000 woody plant species, China has implemented the "macro food ...