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Tag Archives: integrated pest management
Revealed: the chemical blitz bees face in fields
Dave Goulson at The Conversation tells us about insecticides on British crops. Last year on oilseed rape (rapeseed, canola, Brassica napus) Prof Goulson found the neonicotinoid called thiamethoxam (which, by now, is temporarily banned), the pyrethroids called beta-cyfluthrin and alpha-cypermethrin, … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged alpha-cypermethrin, arthropod, beta-cyfluthrin, brassica, bumblebee, canola, crop, farmer, fungicide, fungus, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, insecticide, integrated pest management, neonicotinoid, oilseed, pest, pesticide, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, pollination, pollution, prothioconazole, pyrethroid, rapeseed, thiamethoxam, trade, wild bee, wild pollinator
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New strategy required for delaying insect resistance to Bt crops
arglesock says… We knew that pests would evolve resistance to Bt toxin. I wrote recently about the African maize stalk borer (Busseola fusca) evolving resistance that’s inherited as a dominant trait, making it harder for farmers to control. If I … Continue reading
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Tagged arthropod, biotechnology, Bt crop, Bt toxin, corn, crop, DNA, evolution, genetic modification, insect, insecticide, insecticide resistance, integrated pest management, lepidopteran, maize, Monsanto, moth, pest, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_monocot, stalk borer
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Golden Rice is ‘no solution’ to malnutrition
GRAIN says that Golden Rice is no solution to malnutrition. Golden Rice is a variety of rice (Oryza sativa) which has been genetically modified (GM, also called genetically engineered or GE) to make beta-carotene in its grains. After you eat … Continue reading
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Tagged biofortification, biotechnology, carrot, child, crop diversity, crop rotation, crop variety, development, finance, food, genetic modification, Golden Rice, grain, Green Revolution, hemipteran, integrated pest management, International Rice Research Institute, knowledge, land use, local variety, neonicotinoid, nutrition, Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato, patent, pest, pesticide, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, poverty, pumpkin, research, rice, selective breeding, smallholder, sweet potato, Syngenta, System of Rice Intensification, vegetable, Vitamin A, woman
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Weeds and insects fight back. More market for sprays, then.
Tom Philpott at Mother Jones isn’t impressed by GM crops. That’s genetically modified crops, also called genetically engineered (GE) crops or biotech crops. Mr Philpott says that GM crops are failing. GM crops were supposed to reduce the need for … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food
Tagged arthropod, biotechnology, Bt crop, Bt toxin, crop, development, evolution, food, genetic modification, glyphosate, herbicide, herbicide resistance, insect, insecticide, integrated pest management, marker assisted selection, Monsanto, pest, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, seed, trade, weed
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Pest management can increase agro-production
Originally posted on Agriculture Information Bank:
Friday, July-12-2013 Agricultural production can be increased manifold with the adoption of the latest pest management practices that will reduce agricultural losses worth million of rupees. This was stated by speakers at 2nd Post…
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Tagged arthropod, crop, ecosystem, farm, garden, insect, integrated pest management, knowledge, pest
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It’s not just pests: Pesticides damage biodiversity
Yesterday Sharon Oosthoek at Nature told us about some new science, showing that pesticides spark broad biodiversity loss. It’s easy to spray pesticides within legal limits. But many pesticides accumulate in soil and water. Many organisms can be affected, going … Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, chemical accumulation, ecosystem, integrated pest management, law, pest, pesticide, pollution, research, soil, water, waterway
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2013 National Pollinator Week June 17 to 23
Originally posted on Natural History Wanderings:
Pollinator Week was initiated and is managed by the Pollinator Partnership. Six years ago the U.S. Senate’s unanimous approval and designation of a week in June as “National Pollinator Week” marked a necessary step…
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Tagged arthropod, fipronil, food, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, insecticide, integrated pest management, law, neonicotinoid, pest, pesticide, pollination, wild bee, wild pollinator
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Neonics and Asian rice
A few weeks ago three ‘bee killers’, neonicotinoid sprays and seed treatments, were temporarily banned in Europe. The banned insecticides are dinotefuran, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam. Now cereal farmers outside Europe are talking about what the neonic ban means for them. … Continue reading
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Tagged arthropod, Asia, crop, crop rotation, crop variety, dinotefuran, ecosystem, farmer, flower, grain, hemipteran, honey, honeybee, imidacloprid, insect, insecticide, integrated pest management, knowledge, law, neonicotinoid, okra, parasitoid, pest, pesticide, planthopper, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, predator, research, rice, sesame, thiamethoxam
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IPM, Antibiotics, and Fire Blight- is there a happy medium?
Originally posted on fair food field notes:
Applpy over at Thought + Food recently published an interesting article talking about increased antibiotic use in organic pear and apple orchards. These antibiotics—Streptomycin and Oxytetracycline—are used to combat fire blight, a contagious…
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Tagged antibiotic, arboriculture, bacterium, disease, fire blight, integrated pest management, orchard, pest, plant_dicot, tree
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