Laccaic acid, thought to be produced by lac insects, is produced by a symbiont similar to the zombie ant fungus ...

Warm weather often means the emergence of pests —even on our houseplants. Summer is a crucial time to examine your indoor ...

The Philippine Coconut Authority  has approved an organic solution developed by Chemrez Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of ...

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

The Philippine Coconut Authority has approved CropGuard, a locally developed organic pesticide, as a frontline solution against the devastating coconut scale insect or Cocolisap, according to a unit ...

For whatever reason, my office has seen an explosion of homeowners bringing in branches covered in cottony maple scale. I ...

Chemrez Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of D&L Industries and a pioneer in green chemistry, has received approval from the ...

Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests ...

What comes to mind when you think of beneficial insects in your yard? Observant gardeners will often name one of the voracious predators of other insects. These include generalist predators such as ...

The government has failed to stop the red-striped soft scale insects (RSSI) from spreading and these have infested 2,027 hectares of sugarcane farms, the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) said on ...

An international research team led by Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture has i dentified the gene responsible for a ...

The world produces over 100 million tons of plastic a year, which could take hundreds of years to fully degrade, but ...