HortDaily Florida scientists received a grant to investigate strategies to control bacterial spot in tomatoes. The disease creates major challenges for commercial production throughout Florida and across the United States.

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LOGAN, UTAH, June 22, 2022—The USDA Agricultural Research Service is leading a project dubbed "Beenome100" …

EntomologyToday

By Paige Embry

The larvae of the moth Lymantria dispar* can defoliate a million or more acres of susceptible trees in a few months. Since its arrival in North America in 1869, the moth has spread fairly slowly, currently …

The Guardian

A story about the 17-year cicadas iin the USA. Worth a read

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/01/cicada-explosion-spectacular-chorus

The Conversation https://theconversation.com/pest-or-snack-june-bugs-are-the-croutons-of-the-sky-154035

Many people grit their teeth in anticipation of the arrival of June bugs. You might already have had your first run-in with one. Perhaps you heard …

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Source: Delta FarmPress, Louisiana State University (LSU) report [abridged, edited] https://www.farmprogress.com/soybeans/lsu-student-identifies-fungus-causing-soybean-taproot-declineLSU graduate student Teddy Garcia …

LiveScience https://www.livescience.com/first-us-murder-hornet-nest-destroyed.html?utm_source=notification 

Eleven months after murder hornets were first discovered in the United States, entomologists have tracked down and destroyed the …

Science https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/sparkling-beetle-could-spell-doom-north-america-s-ash-trees?utm_campaign=news_daily_2020-09-24&et_rid=389253831&et_cid=3496611

Elizabeth PennisiAn exotic metallic green beetle is eating its way …

Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2020-07-underscores-importance-global-surveillance-pathogens.html

by American Phytopathological Society

First spotted in the United States in 2014, bacterial leaf streak of corn is an emerging disease of corn that has now …