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Tiny Bug, Big Trouble, Great Science

You may have never seen this tiny bug that's causing big trouble. But agriculturists and scientists have. The spotted-wing...

Spotted-wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzuki, on a raspberry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Spotted-wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzuki, on a raspberry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Spotted-wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzuki, on a raspberry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Monday, September 16, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Economic Development, Environment, Innovation, Natural Resources, Pest Management

Kyle Lewald of Joanna Chiu Lab: Targeting the South American Tomato Leafminer

If you love tomatoes, you hate any and all pests that attack them. That would include the larvae of Tuta absoluta, a South American tomato...

Larvae of Tuta absoluta, a South American tomato leafminer, damaging a tomato leaf. (Photo courtesy of A. Mussoll)
Larvae of Tuta absoluta, a South American tomato leafminer, damaging a tomato leaf. (Photo courtesy of A. Mussoll)

Larvae of Tuta absoluta, a South American tomato leafminer, damaging a tomato leaf. (Photo courtesy of A. Mussoll)

Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 5:24 PM
Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Economic Development, Environment, Innovation, Natural Resources, Pest Management

Beleaguered Bee, Crazy Ant

It's a crazy world out there. Now our beleaguered honey bee has a new foe: the Rasberry crazy ant,  Paratrechina sp. nr. pubens. The Rasberry...

Safe and Secure
Safe and Secure

THIS HONEY BEE, sipping water from a leaf, is safe and secure--but not if hordes of Rasberry crazy ants find her. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Death by Crazy Ants
Death by Crazy Ants

THIS PHOTO, posted on Tom Rasberry's blog at http://crazyrasberryants.blogspot.com/, shows Rasberry crazy ants killing honey bees.

Hive Invasion
Hive Invasion

RASBERRY CRAZY ANTS invading a bee hive and killing ants. (Photo from Tom Rasberry's blog at http://crazyrasberryants.blogspot.com/.)

Posted on Friday, August 7, 2009 at 6:08 PM

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