Potato pests. Like all plants, potatoes can suffer from pest attack above and beneath the soil. The main ones to watch out for are aphids, which attack the top growth, ...

Of the many insect species that visit a vegetable garden, a small fraction are pests. Slugs, aphids, cabbage loopers, and ...

For a potato farmer, there are few moments as discouraging as a run-in with the potato cyst nematode, which causes yellowing leaves and stunted spuds to be covered in legions. The pest has been ...

The annual Miller Research Potato Pest Management Seminar is slated from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 18 at the Historic Wilson Theatre, 610 Fremont. St., Rupert, Idaho. Efforts to […] ...

Inexpensive banana-waste paper used to protect potatoes from pests. A test crop of paper-wrapped potato seeds, being planted in Kenya. Laura Cortada. View 2 Images 1 / 2.

Miller Research will offer a potato pest-management field day Aug. 19 in Rupert, Idaho. The free event, which typically draws about 120 people, will be 10 a.m. to noon at […] ...

The system, introduced by the French entomologist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur in 1735, is a measurement of heat ...

A research team led by a professor in Michigan State University's Department of Entomology has received a $6 million grant to find solutions to control potato pests without the use of an insecticide.

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INKSTER, N.D. -- Potato psyllids, an insect pest that in some parts of the country carries a serious disease bacterium, was found Thursday in university research plots in northern Grand Forks County.