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Indonesia’s foot-and-mouth outbreak shouldn’t come as a surprise. It’s been decades in the making – just the latest consequence of biosecurity shortcomings in the region.
Cowpea is an important crop in Ghana. What will a genetically modified version mean for the country’s farmers?
Bed bugs are pretty much universally reviled. But a public health entomologist explains how – while potentially traumatizing to deal with – they aren’t likely to make you sick.
With temperatures plunging, rodents have started seeking the warmth and food inside our houses. Here’s how to deal with them effectively and humanely – without accidentally catching native animals.
New research finds 74% of land managers who reported releasing a powerful biocontrol release it during the peak rabbit breeding period. This can lead to rabbit populations actually increasing.
Once the larvae turn into adult moths, they never eat again.
While some invasive animals have breached Antarctica, the continent is still pristine. Our challenge is keeping it that way.
Rabbits destroy huge numbers of critical regenerating seedlings over more than half the continent. This has devastating flow-on effects for the rest of the ecosystem. So how do we control them?
Inserting electrodes into insects helps scientists understand what attracts these insects – and, stemming from that, how to trap them and protect crops.
Imagine constantly living with mice. When you go to sleep they run across your bed, the stench of dead mice fills the street. As an expert on mouse outbreaks, let’s look at the issue in more detail.
People love to connect with nature and that’s possible with vertical gardens on high-rise developments. But gardens need a gardener to keep things under control.
If all, or even most, offspring of the survivors are shy, we could be facing an introduced pest population that is incredibly difficult to remove.
Entomologists worried about invasive pests have thousands of curious community scientists posting their findings online — and identifying new species.
A swarm of roughly 40 million desert locusts can eat the same amount of food in one day as about 35,000 people.
Pests can cause sudden and significant damage to homegrown food, but a little planning and intervention can help you cut your losses.
Aerial baiting has been Australia’s foremost weapon against pest species for the past 74 years. But at what cost?
Insects are essential to the functioning of land and freshwater ecosystems but species populations are being lost at a rapid rate globally.
Savvy female stable flies prefer to lay their eggs on donkey and sheep dung. Knowing where they choose to do this will help us manage disease.
Countries should promote alternatives to pesticides and more carefully examine how to prevent insect invasions in the first place
Top contributors
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of York
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Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Science Director, Biosecurity Flagship, CSIRO
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Associate Professor, Ecology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University
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Associate Professor, University of Pretoria
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Adjunct Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Industry/Professional Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Canberra
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Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Research Scientist Invasive Species, CSIRO
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Associate Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University
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Professor in Zoology, James Cook University
