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Cockroaches, a serious pest in both homes and agriculture, are usually controlled using pesticides that can also affect pollinating insects.

Pests are a big problem for Washingtons tree fruit industry, but untended orchards and backyard fruit trees are a major breeding ground for critters like apple maggots, coddling moths, and others.

A new season brings in a new lineup of pests.

For some they are pets and for others they are pests, but one thing is for sure: rats carry fungal pathogens in their lungs and could pass them onto you.

The insects are everywhere, and we didn’t even see them coming.

>> well, its interesting. when they first found the lantern fly, they thought it was only the trees of haven that were being attacked. then over time they found out that theyre actually attacking grapes, particularly wine grapes. theyve caused something like 50 million in damage in pennsylvania. and now there are statements saying that these flies are attacking all kinds of fruit, which the research seems a little bit mixed, but as far as how big of a problem this is, its a problem as old as tim...

The world leaders, they need to stop coming with a wall war-fearing plan. president biden is about to give his speech in the u.n. global security is going to be important. this is very good step, but we need new recipes to feed the hungry world. the worst is coming. were going to have floods, droughts, pests, political instabilities, war, all at the same time. the food that you and i are taken for granted is one day not going to be there. food is a national security issue. every president is tar...

Fruit Bites for September 13-15 ... Insect Invasion

Long, hot and dry summer, and because of that the trees are stressed, they are trying to go into survival mode where they are pulling out too much water from their leaves and they cant get it back into their roots, so they are trying to hunker down and wait for the better weather. it is early, and it is quite worrying that this is happening, isnt it? yes, droughts happen. but we are getting more frequent droughts. that, combined with wetter winters, pests and diseases coming in, ground compactio...

Why do they do that and what can I do about it?