Starlings that forage around cattle, as in this USDA archive photo, pose more of a food safety risk than insect-eating birds on crop fields, according to new research. (USDA) There is slightly more ...

AMHERST, Mass. – An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Lynn Adler, professor of biology at UMass Amherst, has been awarded $2.4 million from the ...

Disease-carrying insects are no longer confined to the tropics or to a short summer season. From mosquitoes and ticks to the so-called kissing bug, a growing body of research shows that these vectors ...

It is a common question that I receive each year: Will freezing temperatures during the winter take care of the plant pests and pathogens in my garden this summer? Unfortunately, the answer is mostly ...

Our current understanding on how pathogens evolve relies on the hypothesis that pathogens' transmission is traded off against host exploitation. In this study, we surveyed the possibility that ...

Corn leafhoppers are small insects that can damage corn crops. The bugs appeared farther north this year in Missouri and Oklahoma. A small insect carrying pathogens that can lead to corn stunt was ...

Insects and pathogens frequently exploit the same host plant and can potentially impact each other’s performance. However, studies on plant– pathogen–insect interactions have mainly focused on a fixed ...

Social insects have evolved sophisticated systems of disease resistance that integrate individual immune responses with collective behavioural defences. These adaptive strategies are exemplified by ...

A research team at the University of Münster has investigated for the first time how the confrontation of bacteria with hosts that have an activated innate immune system affects the evolution of ...

(WHTM) — Many of us now know to kill the spotted lantern fly when we see it, but in Pennsylvania it’s not the only invasive insect to look out for. There are about 300 species of invasive plants, ...