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Busting Bugs: USDA Creates Online Tools to ID Pests

August 14, 2013 Natalie Loggans, USDA, APHIS, Public Affairs

Do you work at a port or international border where identifying potentially destructive agricultural pests is part of your job? Are you a student or teacher interested in learning more about potential and existing agricultural pests? Have you ever seen a creepy crawly thing in your backyard and...

Animals Plants

ARS Ag Research Counts!

May 07, 2013 Justice Wright, Public Affairs Specialist

To recognize the contribution that research in agriculture makes in our daily lives, we’re focusing this month’s Science Tuesday blogs on the successes that USDA science agencies have achieved for us all. If you walk through your home, you’ll see USDA science everywhere. The research we do can be...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Research and Science

Bad Bed Bugs

March 05, 2013 Chris Guy, USDA Agricultural Research Service Information Staff

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from USDA's rich science and research profile. Most likely you’ve heard the old saying about “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite.” The “sleep tight” part relates to...

Research and Science

Pest v. Pest: ARS Offers Method for Combating Whiteflies

November 13, 2012 Chris Guy, USDA Agricultural Research Service Information Staff

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from USDA's rich science and research portfolio. Some Arizona growers rely on broad-spectrum insecticides to treat whiteflies, but scientists with the USDA’s Agricultural...

Research and Science

Pests and Their Natural Enemies: Learn to Protect Your Garden!

June 14, 2010

Written by Kayla Harless, People’s Garden Intern The People’s Garden workshops have yet to be anything less than an informative and fun time! Today, Don Weber, a research entomologist with USDA Agricultural Research Service’s Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland...

Initiatives
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