Natural insect control products are derived from plants, microorganisms and other naturally occurring materials. These products can successfully control many insect pests in gardens and landscapes ...

Corn rootworm larvae chew on and tunnel into the roots of corn plants, which can sever primary and secondary roots. A new insect control tool from Syngenta, Plinazolin, is now registered by the U.S.

Diatomaceous earth (DE) is a naturally occurring siliceous sedimentary material derived from fossilised diatoms, which has gained prominence as an environmentally friendly alternative to synthetic ...

Kenny Coogan: Your products are billed as safe enough for schools and hospitals. How exactly do they work without harsh synthetic chemicals? J.B. Williams: I’m a chemical engineer and what we call ...

The Insect Pest Control Subprogramme of the Joint FAO/IAEA Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture plays a key role in the dissemination of nuclear and related technology information ...

When most folks think of pest management, it’s easy to picture someone spraying ‘harmful chemicals’ around a yard, a field, or even a crop duster plane flying nearby. It then becomes easy to think of ...

FOOD security has always been the most strategic aim of the nations, worldwide. Food safety is a complementary module due to losses endured by a number of biotic and abiotic factors during production, ...

Most over-the-counter sprays only treat what you can see. They rarely address nests or hidden entry points.”— Brittany ...

A press conference will be held on Monday May 9, at 10.35 a.m. at the Vienna International Centre, Press Briefing Room, C03, following the opening of the International Conference on Area-Wide Control ...

IF I learned one thing about teaching insect pest control for the garden, it is that people have allowed themselves to be conditioned to the "silver bullet" method of control. The silver bullet method ...

Creamy-colored and just a couple of centimeters long, the cotton bollworm doesn’t look like much. But around the world, this highly mobile moth has farmers breaking out in a sweat. Females can lay ...