Tag Archives invasive species

Moth provides pasture biocontrol for oxeye daisy
Agriculture Canada researchers learn that the Dichrorampha aeratana moth can help livestock and forage producers fight the weed

Wild boar called major disease risk in Alberta

Alta. irrigators continue efforts to keep out zebra mussels
The invasive species would cause significant damage to the province’s irrigation infrastructure if they were to gain a foothold

Man. wild pig control requires different strategy
Copying U.S. strategies has not worked in Canada because the northern pigs act differently than their southern cousins
HOLLAND, Man. — Manitoba’s rugged wild pigs ain’t like the pampered porkers down south. That means finding, trapping, controlling and monitoring them can’t be done in the same way that Texans do it. As millions of people have seen on YouTube, Texans and other southern plains humans have become adept at trapping large numbers of […] Read more
Stricter restrictions wanted for mussels

Invasive mussel alert in Idaho raises concern in Alberta

Eradicate wild pigs to avoid disease risk: pork council

Computers know their invasive mussels
Artificial intelligence, like that used in autonomous farm equipment, could be taught to recognize and report quagga and zebra mussels
New research on detection of quagga and zebra mussels is testing artificial intelligence capabilities to detect the invasive species before they become endemic. Graham Taylor, interim research director at Vector Institute, said the technology has been tested on Ontario lakes and has proven to be as accurate as human expert estimates of mussel populations in […] Read more
A surprising entry on the unwanted list

Research attempts to nail down wild pig threat
Project hopes to increases awareness of disease potential, distribution in Alberta and interaction with livestock farms
A research project costing nearly $1 million will try to pinpoint how much of a threat the increasing spread of invasive wild pigs in Alberta poses to the province’s producers. Wild pigs can carry numerous diseases that could affect livestock such as cattle as well as infect humans, said Mathieu Pruvot, an assistant professor at […] Read more