Glacier FarmMedia – Producers pay a lot of attention to inputs, seeding rates and combine settings to expand profit margins. According to ag entomology experts, they should also pay attention to pollinator populations and diversity. That means more than honeybees. In Saskatchewan, there are up to 400 different species of bees that contribute as pollinators. […] Read more
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Beetles put to work waging war on leafy spurge
Volunteers work with a Nature Conservancy Canada program to collect leafy spurge flea beetles as a natural control option
Deep within the Willner-Elbow community pasture lies the scourge of cattle ranchers — an abundance of leafy spurge. Driving through the gullies and dunes of the sandy pasture near Elbow, Sask., volunteers recently made a special trip out to a particular patch. Where there is leafy spurge, there may also be some enemies of this […] Read more
Learning to love your local beetles
Boyd Mori has been studying the DNA of what is found in the digestive tracts of the species Pterostichus melanarius, commonly known as the rain beetle, to better understand what they eat.
