Science news articles about 'pest insects'

... Europe has so far been free from invasive pest ants, but it seems just a matter of time ... Europe while exterminating the natural insect fauna. Several of these pest ants have been studied in parallel ...

... closely resembled other P450s that she and entomology department head May Berenbaum had studied in pest insects in the United States. Much earlier work by Schuler, Berenbaum and their colleagues ...

... to reduce the value of natural control of pest insects by beneficial insects," said Scott Swinton, MSU ... so growers have lower pest control costs." Both Landis and Swinton are members of the Great ...

... to domesticated silkworms to increase the efficiency of their food intake. And, he added, if there are pest insects that are similarly attuned to single compounds, then chemicals designed to block ...

... , MIT researchers and collaborators from Northeastern University have discovered a novel way to make pest insects more susceptible to bacterial and fungal infections by blocking part of the immune ...