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New beetles ready to roll
2013-06-03 20:55:50| Livestock - Topix.net
There is a lot of manure to manage in Australia's livestock industry, so Meat and Livestock Australia has joined forces with the CSIRO Biosecurity Flagship to deliver a small solution with a big appetite.
Pine bark beetles poised for new attacks on Canada's northern and eastern forests
2013-04-11 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: After more than a decade, the mountain pine beetle epidemic that surged through British Columbia appears finally to be in remission. Having devastated the province's lodgepole pine forests, the insect is running out of food. But forest managers now see new beetle infestations appearing at the edge of the Boreal Forest, in Alberta, and in the Yukon and Northwest Territories -- areas well outside the insect's historical range. As a warming climate lifts the temperature limitations that once kept...
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Scout for Japanese Beetles in Soybean, Corn Crops this Season
2013-03-11 21:41:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Source: South Dakota State University Extension The Japanese beetle is becoming an increasingly prevalent pest in the north-central region of the United States and can occasionally be an economic problem in soybean or corn fields, says Kelley J. Tilmon, South Dakota State University Extension soybean entomologist. For clarification purposes, Tilmon wants to ensure that readers do not confuse the Japanese beetle with the Asian ladybeetle, which is often called Japanese beetle by mistake. read more
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Why Bark Beetles are Chewing Through U.S. Forests
2013-01-07 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The conifer forests of the North American west have been under a massive assault over the past decade by bark beetles: one species alone, the mountain pine beetle, has killed more than 70,000 square miles' worth of trees, equivalent to the area of Washington State, and two recent studies have shed some light on how climate change is helping fuel the assault, and what's likely to happen in a world that continues to warm. The first, published in the journal Ecology, shows how intense drought can...