Black Bugs Killing Redbay Trees The Exotic Beetles Make a Home in the Trunks,  Then Their Food Causes the Trees to Wilt and Die.
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By TIFFANY PAKKALA  It's hard to find the tiny, black beetles along St. Johns County's picturesque Florida 13, but the redbay trees they're killing are nearly impossible to miss.  The Asian ambrosia beetle, a species recently leaked into the U.S.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...
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Swarms of Asian lady bugs, introduced in this country to control pests, have themselves become a nuisance on golf courses and in homes and gardens around Texas.
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do well to turn to a UN site that counsels if you can&#39;t beat them eat them. swarms that have landed in Cyprus from Africa. &quot;Here are a few local recipes from locust-affected countries,&quot; a page on the FAO Web site says.
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The infestation of tree-killing bugs sweeping through millions of acres of forests in the West might help prevent wildfires rather than fuel them as feared, according to a new study.
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They burned it, mowed it, sprayed it and flooded it. But nothing killed the purple loosestrife weed, which has become a regional plague, until officials at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge set a European beetle loose on it.
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By Kathy Gilbert, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Mar. 3--"A dead plant is an opportunity," joked Carol Reese, extension area specialist in ornamental horticulture from Jackson, Tenn. at Greenway Farms in Hixson last month.   Ms.
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By TESS NACELEWICZ Staff Writer  Visitors to Mackworth Island in Falmouth often admire the orange- red berries of the bittersweet plant, and sometimes take them home to use in Christmas wreaths.  But what many don't know is that those berries are the fruit of a killer vine.
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The Colombian poison-dart frog and six South Pacific bird species use the same rare neurotoxin in their skin and feathers. Now researchers say the animals may eat beetles to obtain the poison.
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Even in death, the 17-year cicadas made their mark. Their decaying carcasses gave a super-size boost in nutrients to forest soil and stimulated seed and nitrogen production in a plant important to the forest ecosystem, researchers reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
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The decline of domesticated bees threatens North America's food supply. Some researchers believe original wild bee species could come to the rescue.
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By JEREMY HAINSWORTH  VANCOUVER (CP) - A report from a consortium of B.C. forestry-related organizations says the response to the pine beetle that has ravaged the province's forests has been overkill.
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The sudden boost trillions of cicadas dying en masse give to North American forests is apparent from a new study published in Science magazine.
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HALIFAX -- The buzzing. The biting. You&#39;d think there were already enough insects in the world to drive you buggy. However, a team of researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax announced yesterday it had
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BOWARA, Central African Republic  - Driven from their homes by armed raiders, terrified villagers in northwest Central African Republic say they are surviving in the bush eating roots, fruit and leaves.
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Blog: Berkeley researchers document the fast-paced recovery of tropical Hypolimnas bolina butterflies from the onslaught of a bacteria that killed only males.
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Invasive species appear to be killing off crucial segments of the Great Lakes food web, from large predator fish to tiny freshwater shrimp, an environmental group said Thursday.