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How to Resist Resistance
When I started working at the Southern Region IPM Center in 2006, I wrote several stories of projects in the region that were in the process of completion. One of them involved a mosquito-management...
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The multiple insecticide-resistant green peach aphid makes a good case for IPM
Spraying an insecticide may seem like the easiest and most effortless type of insect control, but insecticide resistance has proven that spraying without doing your homework first is not the most...
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UK entomologists make important discovery regarding insecticide resistance in...
Researchers in the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture have identified 14 molecular markers in bed bugs that allow them to be resistant to pyrethroid insecticides. Pest control professionals...
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Georgia project looking for ‘middle-ground’ of pesticide use in vegetables
By Clint Thompson, University of Georgia Pests such as thrips, whiteflies, aphids, beet armyworm and hornworms can devastate vegetable crops. Potentially just as harmful, though, is the over-use of...
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Resistant earworms, budworms likely in North Carolina soybeans
In Southeast Farm Press By Dominic Reisig, North Carolina Extension Entomologist I received several calls earlier this week concerning the corn earworm in our North Carolina soybean crop. These reports...
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Western flower thrips developing resistance
From Southeast Farm Press By Joe Funderburk and Mrittunjai Srivastava, UF-IFAS Entomology The western flower thrips and thrips-vectored Tomato spotted wilt virus are key pest threats to Florida’s...
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Cotton growers are finding resistance in thrips
From Southeast Farm Press Cotton producers in Alabama – like those in the MidSouth and in other parts of the Southeast – found pockets of thrips resistance with their at-plant treatments in 2014....
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Texas researchers observe bacteria changing to avoid being killed
By Kathleen Phillips, Texas A&M AgriLife Two types of bacteria found in the soil have enabled scientists at Texas A&M AgriLife Research to get the dirt on how resistance to antibiotics develops...
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When neonicotinoids don’t control thrips, using more isn’t better
In Southeast Farm Press Tobacco thrips resistant to neonicotinoid class of insecticides are proving to be more of a problem for cotton producers in North Carolina and across the Southeast. During the...
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AgriLife Research entomologist testing potato psyllids for insecticide...
by Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife A growing resistance of potato psyllids to the neonicotinoid classification of insecticides has Dr. Ada Szczepaniec, Texas A&M AgriLife Research...
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Thrips resistance in cotton
In Southeast Farm Press by Ron Smith, Alabama Cooperative Extension System The first major insect we focus on during the cotton production season is thrips. Many have heard and read in recent years...
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Soybean cyst nematode-resistant soybeans are not immune to pest
In Southeast Farm Press by members of Syngenta Many soybean farmers don’t realize their fields may be a buffet for soybean cyst nematodes, despite the use of SCN-resistant soybean varieties. These...
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Cornell University scientists sequence genome for whitefly
In Delta Farm Press A tiny insect that feeds on some 1,000 plant species and transmits more than 300 plant viruses, causing billions of dollars in crop losses each year worldwide, is now about to be...
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Study IDs Ways to Encourage ‘Refuge’ Planting, Slowing Resistance to Bt Crops
by Matt Shipman, North Carolina State University A new study from North Carolina State University finds a significant shortfall in the amount of “refuge” cropland being planted in North Carolina –...
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Hybridized cotton reverses resistance of pink bollworm to Bt cotton
in Southwest Farm Press Researchers with the University of Arizona and China discovered a surprising strategy to reverse pink bollworm resistance to genetically engineered cotton. Cotton growers have...
View ArticlePlanting a refuge necessary for preserving Bt technology
in Southwest Farm Press Southern corn growers will pull their planters out of the shed and into the field in only a few short weeks. Bt corn will be planted on millions of acres across the South,...
View ArticleInformation about July 17-20 FIFRA SAP Meeting on Resistance and Bt, Request...
On May 17, 2018, the Agency published a Federal Register notice announcing the location of the July 17-20, 2018, in-person meeting of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific...
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