If you live in the tropics, malaria can still take your life the way it always has: painfully over the course of a few days, or within hours if you’re lucky. In northern climes, West Nile virus can likewise knock you out in a matter of days if you’re young or elderly. But don’t bother […] Read more
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Organic activists help mosquitoes thrive
Rancher uses garlic to keep flies at bay
LA BROQUERIE, Man. — Have you heard the one about the farmer who fed his cattle garlic to ward off not vampires, but flies? Since 2010 Richard Carr, a cattle producer east of Steinbach, Man., has added garlic powder to his mineral to keep flies off his cattle in the summer. Over the last three […] Read more
Peace region canola survey finds no cabbage seedpod
Bugsters searching for the destructive cabbage seedpod weevil in the Peace River region couldn’t find any in the sampled fields. Jennifer Otani, entomologist with Agriculture Canada, said they are confident the weevil hasn’t moved north to the Peace region. The Peace canola survey has been conducted annually since the pest moved into southern Alberta in […] Read more
Scientists genetically modify insect
A British company has pioneered a way to create a sterile male diamondback moth that it hopes will reduce the destruction caused by the harmful pest. Oxitec scientists have genetically modified the diamondback moth to create sterile male insects that mate with wild females of the same species. The genetic modification prevents females in the […] Read more
