See No Weevil: Eradication of cotton pest succeeding
See No Weevil: Eradication of cotton pest succeeding
BROWNSVILLE — Perhaps it's fitting that the boll weevil's last stand is taking place in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, since it was here — near Brownsville — in the 1890s that a little pest with a big appetite first crossed into the continental United …
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NJ's Jeff White puts pest control in spotlight on Animal Planet's 'Infested'
The New Egypt resident hosts a popular video blog about the pest. / EGAN-CHIN NEWS FILE PHOTO WHEN, WHERE: 9 pm Fridays through Feb. 24 on Animal Planet Jeff White doesn't sing, act or dance. Yet the New Egypt resident has had much more than his 15 …
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Hunting for the super-bug
It's called the Western corn rootworm, and while farmers have battled the pest for decades, Midwestern crop scientists are now scrambling to figure out whether the larvae and adult bugs have developed into a super-bug, capable of eating corn that ought …
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