Portulaca are native to South America and are simple to grow as well as being drought tolerant plants. Part of their ...

Climate change is making tick-borne illnesses more common, which makes tick prevention strategies even more critical.

Rattlesnakes, bison, spiders and ticks are among the deadliest animals in Kansas highlighted in an entry on the WorldAtlas ...

Topics Livestock, Insect pests, Insecticides Publisher Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service : in cooperative with Illinois ...

Artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) is a swarm intelligence algorithm, which simulates the intelligent behavior of bee colony. ABC algorithm has achieved good performance in solving multivariable ...

Identification of cellulolytic microbes Microbial colonies grown on CMC plate directly from the insect guts or after enrichment in filter paper were selected for the identification based on their size ...

Bumblebees, among the most important pollinators, are in trouble. Fuzzy and buzzy, they excel at spreading pollen and fertilizing many types of wild flora, as well as crucial agricultural crops ...

Detection of insect pests in the agricultural field, which is useful in achieving smart agriculture, has attracted considerable attention. In particular, automatically monitoring the number of crop ...

As the genetically modified organisms (GMOs) labeling policies are issued in many countries, qualitative and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques are increasingly used for the ...

With more than 300 of these native bee species, FWC biologists are beginning to investigate the relationship between the bees and other aspects of the environment.

Gardening Gardening expert shares 3 plants you can add to your garden to help bees thrive Bees are a vital part of our ecosystem, and without them, the world would be a very different place.

That bee you see in your garden may not be a bee at all. There are lots of insects that buzz, sting and pollinate, and telling them apart can be a challenge for the untrained eye. ... A bumble bee on ...