Science news articles about 'field populations'

  • Herbicide diversity needed to keep Roundup effective

    ... is expensive, and it means more trips across the field," Johnson said. "But we can reduce the population and density of resistant weeds ... -resistant marestail develops very quickly in a field. Populations reach staggering levels of infestation ...
  • Social networking helps hermit crabs find homes

    ... Social Behaviors By seeding vacant shells into field populations and staying up all night to see what ... a line of dominoes," says Rotjan. Computer models populated with virtual hermit crabs and shells confirmed ...
  • New technique uncovers hidden insecticide resistance

    ... ) is improving the detection and monitoring of insecticide resistance in field populations of an important malaria-carrying mosquito ... . "The An. funestus mosquito is difficult to collect and rear from the field and hence published studies of insecticide resistance ...
  • Spider mite genome sequence establishes tools to tackle pest resistance

    ... the mode of action of a major mite pesticide, as well as how mites have evolved resistance to the pesticide in field populations. The findings are published this week in Proceedings ...

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