Biological Control

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Biological Control: - In pest control, the use of animals and organisms that eat or otherwise kill or out-compete pests.
[Environmental Protection Agency]

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Pompom weed – a rapidly increasing menace  -  04 Aug 2008
Kruger Park Times (press release),Biological control is the only sustainable control option against pompom weed. The pompom weed webpage is fully functional and can be accessed at the ARC

Off summer for invasive species  -  04 Aug 2008
Cape Cod Times,Elkinton believes the only thing that will stop the winter moth is to introduce another biological control, a tiny fly — Cyzenis albicans — that lays its

Battle plans drawn for plague locust threat  -  04 Aug 2008
Stock and Land,Habitat areas of endangered birds and mammals are being mapped so that extensive use can be made of the Metarhizium fungus, a biological control agent which

Selecting the Perfect Insect Pest  -  Aug 1, 2008
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (press release),Scientists enter the biological control agents into the program one at a time until the perfect pest is identified. Scientists then collect data during

Nigeria begins integrated management of aquatic weeds  -  Aug 1, 2008
The Tide,The Tide learnt that the control of invasive aquatic weeds would involve integrated/combined physical and biological control methods.

GDG Environnement, Leader in the Biological Control of Mosquitoes ...  -  Jul 15, 2008
Market Wire (press release)...where the corporate name Theseus Capital Inc. was changed for GDG Environment Group Ltd. Leader in the biological control of biting flies,

Biological revolution reduces residues  -  Jul 25, 2008
Freshinfo,In reality, by acting as the trigger to adopt the wide-scale use of biological control techniques, growers have earned the region a reputation for

Biological control of leafy spurge in Becker County  -  Jul 9, 2008
Frazee Vergas Forum,The city of Frazee and its surrounding areas have combatted the noxious weed leafy spurge for years. This year, the battle continued as Frazee City worker

Spraying aimed at preventing West Nile cases  -  Jul 30, 2008
SmallTownPapers News Service,Larviciding involves attacking the mosquitoes in their larval stage, using specific pesticides including biological control agents, stomach or contact

Dan Gill's mailbox  -  Aug 1, 2008
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com,In cases where caterpillars are the only problem, insecticides containing Bacillus thuringiensis provide excellent biological control.

Insects tend gardens and wild plants  -  Jul 14, 2008
Universitas Helsingiensis,Biological control agents beat chemical pesticides both in terms of effectiveness and the duration of their effect. In a recent column, Heikki Hokkanen,

New Textbook is Important Weed Biocontrol Tool  -  Jul 9, 2008
Agricultural Research,The new textbook, "Control of Pests and Weeds by Natural Enemies: An Introduction to Biological Control," was co-authored by Ted Center, director of the ARS

Innovative New Products, Backed by Outstanding Customer Service ...  -  Aug 1, 2008
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release),Raw materials are carefully screened using toxicological data from suppliers, and fluids are tested and evaluated for mildness, biological control,

Let's investigate case of dying trees  -  Aug 1, 2008
Akron Beacon Journal,...to research the effectiveness of certain fungicide and biological control treatments this year in some trials near Circleville in south-central Ohio.

Grovers Mill Pond welcomes the dredge  -  Aug 2, 2008
Princeton Packet,A company, Allied Biological Control Corp., was even hired by the township before it took ownership of the pond in 1987 to repeatedly treat the pond with

BELIZE AND CUBA REAFFIRMS BILATERAL RELATIONS  -  Jul 23, 2008
LoveFM,Also we looked at technology transfer and the mounting of a laboratory for the production of biological organisms for biological control programs which

Gardening Products Allowable for Outdoor Use;  -  Jul 15, 2008
The Kingston Whig-Standard,Biological pesticides like Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), nematodes and other biological control agents: nematodes are used to control grubs.

Targeting a 'menace': Scientist sics her beetles on invasive plant  -  Jul 24, 2008
Andover Townsman,Approved as biological control agents in 1992 by the United States Department of Agriculture, the beetles, which belong to the genus Galerucella,

Natural Pest Control  -  Jul 8, 2008
Maui Weekly,Other highly effective methods of pest control are companion planting and biological control. Marigolds planted next to root vegetables deter nematodes,

Fungus Foot Baths Could Save Bees  -  Jul 28, 2008
Science Daily (press release)Biological control technologies (the use of one organism to control another) could offer a way of moving pest management strategies away from a reliance on

Fresno Co. aims pest control at farm area  -  Jul 25, 2008
Fresno Bee (subscription),He said his staff also can ask the state to release a biological control -- parasitic wasps. Poss said she believes some homeowners may not know that the

Honduran melon growers on track  -  Aug 2, 2008
Freshinfo,...“Nevertheless, we are very well ahead and we have invested and worked hard to develop sustainable agriculture practices with biological control within

Idaho Picks Six Projects for Conservation Innovative Grants  -  Jul 8, 2008
Western Farmer-Stockman,A top award of $150000 will go to The Wood River Resource Conservation and Development to implement biological control methods in grazing, forest and crop

$1.87M more secured for WSU ag facility  -  Aug 2, 2008
Capital Press (subscription),...animal diseases, integrated pest management, soil erosion, air and water quality, cereal crop diseases, wheat root diseases and biological control.

All-out war against deadly aliens  -  Jul 26, 2008
Snowmass Sun,Pitkin County has tried biological control in the past on leafy spurge and yellow toadflax with some success. Last week Yates-White and Mulleavey met in

Rabbits resilient, numbers rise  -  Jul 23, 2008
Barrier Miner,DESPITE the spectacular success of both myxomatosis and Rabbit Haemorragic Disease (RHD), formerly RCD, the two biological control agents used in

Plague of toads could be worse  -  Jul 11, 2008
The Canberra Times,He said a biological control was now needed to control cane toad populations and a toxin or virus would probably be the best bet. AP.

Dengue Down in Chorotega Region  -  Aug 1, 2008
Beach Times,...the malaria mosquito (Anopheles sp.) by strengthening “clean cities� programs and introducing a particular fish into swamps as a form of biological control.

Colorado's Love bugs  -  Jul 21, 2008
Grand Junction Free Press,When I met a biological control agent at Dewey Bridge, Utah, several months ago I was curious and asked how fast the beetles’ population was increasing in

Beetles the next step in weed fight  -  Jul 14, 2008
Port Lincoln Times,Board senior authorised officer Peter Sheridan said the beetles complemented the work of two other biological control agents being used at the sites the

Federal red tape cuts off hope for grass bank  -  Jul 18, 2008
Capital Press (subscription),We released three biological control agents a decade ago and they haven't been very effective either." A fourth biological control agent was released just

Garden Microbe Foils E. Coli O157:H7 In Laboratory Tests  -  Jul 28, 2008
Science Daily (press release)In the meantime, E. asburiae shows initial promise for use as a biological control agent in science-based strategies to safen salad greens, Cooley reports.

WNC watches, waits for tree pest's arrival  -  Jul 28, 2008
Asheville Citizen-Times,Lucik said researchers are working on finding a biological control to stop the spread of the emerald ash borer. Until then, the only way to stop the spread

Beetles to control the spurge  -  Jul 8, 2008
Lake Country Calendar,The Regional District of the Central Okanagan released a population of tiny flea beetles as a biological control agent in Oyama earlier this week.

Mosquitoes may not be the only thing flying  -  Jul 17, 2008
Williston Daily Herald,We also integrated it with some biological control and used GPS mapping and whittled it down over the years to about 1500 acres and then went to every other

Giving weeds the weevil eye in Chesco  -  Jul 17, 2008
Suburban and Wayne Times,The conservancy is receiving support from the University of Delaware’s College of Agriculture in conjunction with the its “biological control of invasive

Scientists searching for way to stop ash borer's spread  -  Jul 23, 2008
Kankakee Daily Journal,Most biological control agents fail, although researchers are hopeful this time because the parasitic insects do a good job of controlling the emerald ash

Weevil could upset bellyache bush  -  Jul 11, 2008
ABC Online,It could take years before the weevil is approved for release as a biological control. The jury is still out over the success of the last insect released to

Beetle release targets invasive tamarisk  -  Jul 31, 2008
Delta County Independent,...role in the release and monitoring of the insect, which underwent more pre-release testing than any other biological control agent in US history.

Down Country Roads  -  Jul 9, 2008
Senaca News Dispatch,Biological control in the form of fly wasps, sometimes called fly predators, is also effective. Some feedlots have started using this method as the fly

GREENER PASTURES  -  Jul 31, 2008
Greene County Record,A biological control organism that is also highly effective and sold commonly is Bacillus thuringiensis (eg, Dipel, Thuricide).

Watch Out for Mosquito Baby Boom  -  Jul 7, 2008
Lakefront Hartwell,Another biological control option is to stock standing water with gambusia, also known as mosquito fish. You can stock lily pools, ponds,

Crazy Days are back in downtown Sandpoint  -  Jul 25, 2008
Bonner County Daily Bee,PEL is supportive of the research and development of a biological control program using the milfoil weevil. For more information, visit www.pelidaho.org or

Poachers Arrested on Sakhalin  -  Jul 21, 2008
ВоÑ?ток Медиа,UZHNO-SAKHALINSK. 22 July. VOSTOK-MEDIA. During the implying measures in the framework of “Fishing Season 2008â€? staff of the Department of Internal Affairs

Personal shopper  -  Jul 25, 2008
guardian.co.uk,...pets and children or with a biological control of microscopic worms that enter the slug and give it blood poisoning from the bacteria it carries.

Parasitization by the wasp Eretmocerus mundus induces ...  -  Jul 18, 2008
7thSpace Interactive (press release),Although the whitefly is often controlled using chemical pesticides, biological control agents constitute an important component in integrated pest

Noxious weeds throw a blanket on Colorado  -  Jul 18, 2008
Rocky Mountain News,...into three lists: List A (eradicate), List B (keep from spreading) and List C (provide additional education, research and biological control resources).

Who’s afraid of the big bad toad?  -  Jul 15, 2008
Cosmos,In 1935, agricultural scientists from the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Station near Cairns committed one of the great blunders of biological control history.

Beetles used to fight invasive plant  -  Jul 14, 2008
NECN,These beetles have been used to successfully control purple loosestrife since the USDA approved their use as a biological control agent in 1992.

Controlling Invasive Cane Grass With Wasps?  -  Jul 24, 2008
Science Daily (press release)Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) to investigate biological control for an invasive cane grass that is choking waterways across North America.




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