Tag Archives: virus

Feature: Protecting the pollinators part 2 – bees and disease

Posted on April 21, 2014 by argylesock

argylesock says… Here’s the second of three articles about pollinators, from the Wellcome Trust blog, which I’m passing on today.

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Feature: Protecting the pollinators part 1 – bees and ecology

Posted on April 21, 2014 by argylesock

argylesock says… We need bees and other pollinators. We really, really need them. Here’s the first of three articles about pollinators, from the Wellcome Trust blog, which I’ll pass on today.

Posted in agriculture, ecology, food, miniculture | Tagged apiculture, arachnid, arthropod, beetle, biodiversity, bumblebee, coleopteran, conservation, crop, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, dipteran, disease, ecosystem, habitat loss, honeybee, hoverfly, hymenopteran, insect, mite, pesticide, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, pollination, research, seed, Varroa destructor, virus, wasp, wild bee, wild pollinator | 2 Comments

GMO breakthroughs and fakethroughs

Posted on March 19, 2014 by argylesock

It can be difficult to know who to believe about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The scientific peer review system is no guarantee of truth, nor are the news media, nor are blogs like this one. Jonathan Latham of the US-based … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer | Tagged academia, bacterial rice leaf blight, bacterium, banana, biofortification, biotechnology, cassava, development, disease resistance, genetic modification, Golden Rice, grain, International Rice Research Institute, knowledge, Monsanto, nutrition, oral vaccination, pathogen, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, research, rice, staple food, sustainable, sweet potato, tuber, vaccine, virus | 1 Comment

A pest aphid which nicotine doesn’t kill

Posted on December 15, 2013 by argylesock

Three of the pesticides called neonics (neonicotinoids) are under a temporary ban here in Europe. It’s because there’s evidence that they kill bees. Of course bee-killing isn’t the reason neonics were used, and still are used in several countries. They’re … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, horticulture | Tagged aphid, arthropod, Europe, evolution, gene, hemipteran, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, insecticide, insecticide resistance, law, neonicotinoid, pest, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, research, tobacco, virus, virus transmission, wild bee | 3 Comments

Bees under threat from bumblebee imports

Posted on August 4, 2013 by argylesock

Here in Britain, some market gardeners and amateur gardeners import bumblebees to pollinate crops. Some of them are bringing in bee diseases. Scientists funded by the Natural Environment Research Council say that this may be killing our wild buff-tailed bumblebees … Continue reading →

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Establishing the Cause of Disease

Posted on July 2, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on Agriculture Information Bank:
The correct diagnosis of a plant disease and its cause is not always an easy task. In the first instance symptoms may be ill defined which make their association with any organism problematic (Derrick…

Posted in horticulture, human health | Tagged bacterium, disease, fungus, human, livestock, nematode, parasite, pathogen, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, research, technology, virus | Leave a comment

Vaccination is happening against a virus which deforms lambs and calves

Posted on June 15, 2013 by argylesock

The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) is a Government agency here in Britain. It’s part of the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Among other tasks, VMD approves new veterinary drugs and vaccines. Farming eyes have been on VMD … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, knowledge transfer | Tagged arthropod, cattle, deer, deformity, dipteran, disease, emerging disease, goat, insect, livestock, mammal, midge, ruminant, Schmallenberg virus, sheep, vaccine, vector, vertebrate, veterinary, virus | 6 Comments

Arctic melt spurs global spread of disease

Posted on June 11, 2013 by argylesock

argylesock says… Infectious diseases can devastate people, livestock and wildlife. As climates change, some pathogens and parasites are turning up in places they previously weren’t.

Posted in ecology, human health, weather and climate | Tagged bacterium, climate, disease, emerging disease, history, human, livestock, parasite, sea, temperature, veterinary, virus, wildlife, zoonosis | Leave a comment

New vaccine against foot and mouth disease

Posted on April 14, 2013 by argylesock

Here’s an article from Understanding Animal Research (UAR) about a new vaccine against foot and mouth disease (FMD). FMD is a highly infectious disease of cloven-hoofed animals, caused by the virus Aphthae epizooticae. It’s not to be confused with hand, … Continue reading →

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Paradoxic pandemic: The inexorable spread of hand, foot and mouth disease

Posted on April 11, 2013 by argylesock

argylesock says… Hand, foot and mouth disease isn’t to be confused with foot and mouth disease. This article explains.

Posted in human health | Tagged child, disease, emerging disease, hand foot and mouth disease, human, virus | Leave a comment