While you might welcome the recent pattern of milder winters followed by the earlier arrival of spring, the greater number of warm days could spell trouble for your garden. Many common plant pests and ...

Artificial intelligence allows farmers to increase yields by spotting pests and diseases early — and has led to a new wave of indoor growing startups.

Steeped with a rich culinary history, parsley was once believed to be grown only by witches and pregnant women. Now that it is cultivated throughout the world by both men and women, the old myths of ...

Corn seedlings with roots exteriors falling off, a symptom of Pythium. Pythium is a pathogen that lives in soil and often wreaks havoc on row-crop operations. The disease causes about $25 million in ...

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Whether you’re camping for the weekend, hiking local trails or barbecuing in your backyard, there’s one unwanted visitor you always need to watch out for: ticks. The tiny pests are easy to miss, and ...

Esther Kimani, CEO of Farmer Lifeline Technologies that detects crop pests and diseases on the farm after winning her pitch. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard] Born and raised in Tigoni village, along the ...

Ticks were named NPMA’s 2025 Pest of the Year due to their significant public-health impact, including rising tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and alpha-gal ...

A widespread bacteria called Wolbachia and a virus that it carries can cause sterility in male insects by hijacking their sperm, preventing them from fertilizing eggs of females that do not have the ...