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3 Soybean Insects to Scout For, Identify
2013-08-06 22:21:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Source: DuPont Pioneer Growers encouraged to closely monitor fields each year for pests, including soybean aphids, brown marmorated stink bug and kudzu bug, that repopulate and overwinter. While high heat and drought conditions last year controlled some yield-robbing insect populations, including soybean aphids, this season may reveal a different story, caution DuPont Pioneer experts. Moderate temperatures and delayed planting, combined with aphids ability to overwinter, could increase the risk of this insects infestation. read more
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Iowa officials offer tree program to fight insects
2013-08-02 05:48:44| Energy - Topix.net
Alliant Energy is teaming up with Iowa forestry officials to offer a residential tree planting program aimed at fighting invasive insects.
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RoboRoach Kickstarter project will bring cyborg insects to the masses
2013-06-12 17:44:32| Extremetech
RoboRoach is a new KickStarter project that aims to take the now months-old idea of a remote controlled cockroach and put it in the hands of the public.
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Insects as Sustainable Food and Feed Source
2013-05-27 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - Insects as food and feed are a particularly relevant issue in the 21st century due to the rising cost of animal protein, food and feed insecurity, environmental pressures, population growth and increasing demand for protein among the middle classes, according to a new report from FAO.
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Human actions threaten the world's pollinating insects
2013-04-22 09:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PlanetEarth: A combination of multiple, mostly man-made pressures are largely responsible for the continued global decline in honeybees, bumblebees, and other insect pollinators, say scientists. The oil-collecting bee Rediviva longimanus delves deep into the orchid Pterygodium schelpei to extract oil with absorbent hairs on its elongated front feet. It seems individual stresses like intensive farming, climate change, the spread of alien species and diseases are almost entirely to blame for pollinator losses....
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