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All Articles Tagged As: aphids
 | Aphid researchers from Chinese Academy of Sciences found one new species, Aleurodaphis sinojackiae, from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, China. It forms leaf galls on jack trees and is one of two known gall makers in the plant lice Aleurodaphis. The study was published in the open-access journal ZooKeys. ...> Full Article |
A new, open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management describes the biology and ecology profiles of the soybean aphid, an insect pest which can reduce soybean yields by $2.4 billion annually if left untreated.
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 | Farmers who spray insecticides against aphids as a preventative measure only achieve a short-term effect with this method. In the long term, their fields will end up with even more aphids than untreated fields. This has been reported by researchers at the Biocenter of the University of Wuerzburg in the scientific journal PLoS ONE. ...> Full Article |
As soon as aphids sense the heat and humidity in a mammal's breath, they drop to safety before they are inadvertently ingested together with the plant the animal is feeding on. These findings by Moshe Gish and colleagues, from the University of Haifa in Israel, show both how accurate aphids are at detecting this threat and how effective their escape behavior is. The work was published online in Springer's journal Naturwissenschaften -- The Science of Nature.
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 | Research points to a need for possible reclassification of aphid species. ...> Full Article |
 | Apathetic aphids -- which become accustomed to ignoring genetically engineered chemical alarms in plants and alarms sent by fellow aphids -- become easy prey for ladybugs. That's good news for farmers, according to researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Cornell University. ...> Full Article |
A University of Guelph study reveals some organic pesticides can have a higher environmental impact than conventional pesticides.
Researchers investigated the effectiveness and environmental impact of organic pesticides to those of conventional and novel reduced-risk synthetic products on soybean crops.
The researchers found the organic pesticides required larger doses and were more harmful to pests that help protect the crop compared to the synthetic pesticides.
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 | University of Illinois researchers recently identified a new soybean aphid biotype that can multiply on aphid-resistant soybean varieties. Soybean aphids are the No. 1 insect threat to soybean production in the North Central region of the United States. ...> Full Article |
 | There's a war occurring each day in our backyards -- plant versus plant-eating insect versus insect-eating insect. Research by UC Irvine's Kailen Mooney suggests the outcome -- of interest to farmers -- is a stalemate. ...> Full Article |
Two Iowa State University researchers are looking at a way to genetically modify soybeans to prevent damage from aphids. If successful, soybeans will carry in-plant protection from aphids, similar to the way genetically modified corn now keeps the European Corn Borer from destroying corn yields.
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This year farmers in the Midwest are growing a new variety of soybeans developed by University of Illinois researchers that has resistance to soybean aphids. However, in addition to the resistant plants, U of I researchers also discovered a new soybean aphid which is not controlled by this resistance.
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 | An invasion of soybean aphids poses a problem for soybean farmers requiring application of pesticides, but a team of Penn State entomologists thinks a careful choice of nitrogen-fixing bacteria may provide protection against the sucking insects. ...> Full Article |
 | The small amount of money put toward fighting the tiny, yet destructive soybean aphid will pay big dividends in the coming years, said a Michigan State University economist, thanks to a research and outreach system developed during the last 50 years. ...> Full Article |
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