Smartest way for man to fight the insects who rival him for the earth’s bounty is to turn insect against insect. The wasp Microbracon mellitor assassinates boll weevils (which last year destroyed ...

On a day when the bounty of summer vegetables were heaped in farmer’s stalls, Amanda Chester was on the hunt for one thing. “You ain’t got no purple hulls yet?” she asked farmer Woody Nix at his stall ...

A small white grub is responsible for water leaking from sub-surface drip irrigation pipes used by some growers. Lucerne is a pasture or hay crop. Scientists used glass observation chambers to show ...

A plate of weevil grubs, ready for consumption. CIFOR scientists in Cameroon have created a new way to improve crops of the larvae. Photo: Hoddle Lab, UC Riverside/creative commons Palm weevil grubs ...