Posts Tagged: agricultural pest

Tiny Bug, Big Trouble, Great Science

You may have never seen this tiny bug that's causing big trouble. But agriculturists and scientists have. The spotted-wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii, is an agricultural pest that is super tiny. It's approximately 2 to 4 millimeters in length with a wingspan...

Spotted-wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzuki, on a raspberry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Spotted-wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzuki, on a raspberry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Kyle Lewald of Joanna Chiu Lab: Targeting the South American Tomato Leafminer

If you love tomatoes, you hate any and all pests that attack them. That would include the larvae of Tuta absoluta, a South American tomato leafminer. In its adult stage, it's a moth in the family Gelechilidae. In its larval stage, it's a major agricultural pest.  Since 2008,...

Larvae of Tuta absoluta, a South American tomato leafminer, damaging a tomato leaf. (Photo courtesy of A. Mussoll)

Larvae of Tuta absoluta, a South American tomato leafminer, damaging a tomato leaf. (Photo courtesy of A. Mussoll)

Beleaguered Bee, Crazy Ant

It's a crazy world out there. Now our beleaguered honey bee has a new foe: the Rasberry crazy ant,  Paratrechina sp. nr. pubens. The Rasberry crazy ant is driving Texans crazy. A UC Davis entomologist sent me an Associated Press news story about how these crazy ants are wreaking havoc in...

Safe and Secure

THIS HONEY BEE, sipping water from a leaf, is safe and secure--but not if hordes of Rasberry crazy ants find her. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Death by Crazy Ants

THIS PHOTO, posted on Tom Rasberry's blog at http://crazyrasberryants.blogspot.com/, shows Rasberry crazy ants killing honey bees.

Hive Invasion

RASBERRY CRAZY ANTS invading a bee hive and killing ants. (Photo from Tom Rasberry's blog at http://crazyrasberryants.blogspot.com/.)

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