Last year, 90% of Matthew Fitzgerald’s 450 acres of soybeans were infested with soybean aphids. An organic farmer in Hutchinson, Minnesota, Fitzgerald is one of many whose livelihoods have been ...

The T-Sum test indicated a high risk of aphid flight in the last week of October, so an insecticide was applied on 5 November. The T-sum assessment is calculated from the accumulated average daily ...

Environmental damage from insecticide overuse is a major concern, particularly for conservation of “good” insects such as pollinators that ensure stable production of food crops like fruits and ...

Such weeds are particularly important because they not only serve as hosts for several local sap-feeding, virus-vectoring insects, especially aphids, but also because they may act as significant ...

A well-known broad-spectrum insecticide used against assorted pests in fruit and ... is registered for control of Colorado potato beetle and aphids in potato crops, and for control of alfalfa plant ...