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Insect Word of the Day

The Insect Word of the Day is Frons. Frons in context to Insect means:

Upper part of the insect face, between and below the antennae and usually carrying the median ocellus or simple eye. In true ... Read More

Insect News

Canadian peat moss is all you need to stop, reverse grass root rot (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
There aren?t many new turf insect and disease problems from year to year. When one does appear, it?s fairly newsworthy. Now, we have take-all root rot (take-all patch) in North Texas lawns. Texas? resident expert in this disease is Dr. Phil Colbaugh, the recently retired and highly respected plant pathologist of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station of Texas A&M. Dr. Colbaugh conducted ... Read More

Biocontrol Insect Exacerbates Invasive Weed (Science Daily)
Biocontrol agents, such as insects, are often released outside of their native ranges to control invasive plants. But scientists in Montana have found that through complex community interactions among deer mice, native plants and seeds, the presence of an introduced fly may exacerbate the effects of the invasive plant it was meant to control. Read More

Devastating insect spotted (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed that an insect trapped Friday near the Sweetwater Reservoir is an Asian citrus psyllid, an insect that can carry a disease devastating to citrus crops, state officials A single detection of the pest is sufficient to trigger a quarantine, according to state officials, who said yesterday afternoon that the terms of such an order are being developed. Read More

Murder on the hippy trail (Deccan Herald)
The year was 1971. Staying in an insect-infested hippy hangout, was a bunch of foreigners who had come to India, for reasons of their own. But is one of them the ritualistic hippy serial killer? Read More

Insect Spotlight: Milkweed attracts bright, showy insects that can be toxic (Tri-State Neighbor)
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