When I first heard about the Palisade Insectary, I imagined creepy scientists in white coats, creating giant Franken-bugs. You know, like the grasshopper that ate ...

- A large number of our designated noxious weeds have had some sort of bio-control program at one time or another. So I think probably maybe two thirds of the noxious weeds have some sort of bio ...

One man's weed is another man's wonder and University of Guam research scientist Dr. Gadi V. P. Reddy has spent much of his career finding environmentally safe methods to control invasive plants. A ...

Biological control of undesirable garden pests is the desirable way to go. It’s a garden management tool that encourages natural processes by bringing one living organism into the garden to munch on ...

Bioherbicides offer a promising, sustainable alternative to synthetic chemical herbicides by harnessing the natural phytotoxic properties of fungi. Recent research in this field has focused on ...

The integrity of many natural environments in the southeastern United States is being threatened by invasive plants. Biological control offers a selective method for the control of these weeds because ...

Entomologists reached a milestone in their efforts to control the invasive weed swallow-wort this month with the first release of a biological agent to fight the pest. University of Rhode Island ...

Pt. 1. Scope of biological control -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Types of biological control, targets, and agents -- Pt. 2. Kinds of natural enemies -- 3. Parasitoid diversity and ecology -- 4. Predator ...

Weedy plants are often controlled by the application of herbicides. Here we explore an alternative method of control. We suggest that the abundance of an undesired plant species (here dandelions: ...

For years, researchers claimed the first biological control of a weed occurred in 1902, in Hawaii. But a Virginia Tech entomologist has proved that the ecological approach to combating invasive ...