insects

A small piglet in the farm. Swine in a stall. Shallow depth of field portrait of young pig in the farm.
Livestock, Swine

Plan now to mitigate insect problems next summer

Insects can be harmful for swine and can create a large loss for producers when sending the animals to the packing plants. Read More

Brown marmorated stink bug on wall, upside down. (Photo: iStock - Petra Richli)
Home and Family

Seal your home to keep insects from spending the winter with you

Alfalfa. (Journal photo by Kylene Scott.)
Editors, Hay Range Pasture, Kylene Scott

Panelists share how field management, baling impact hay crop 



Agricultural spring landscape. Green soybean sprouts. Rows of early soy shoots growing in the rich dark brown soil. (Photo: iStock - Awltail)

Bean Growers Day scheduled for Aug. 20

Grasshopper (Photo by Alice Whyte, Vilas, North Carolina.)

In the garden: Am I growing plants, or feeding grasshoppers?

  • By Pat Melgares │ K-State Research and Extension

Stripe rust a concern in Oklahoma wheat

OSU forage entomologist discusses alfalfa weevils

Inspect the limbs of fresh-cut Christmas trees to help ensure insect pests don’t end up spending the holidays indoors. (Photo by Mitchell Alcala, OSU Agriculture)

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, how lovely are thy … insects?

Common house spider (iStock - CBCK-Christine)

Spiders in the Home Are No Cause for Worry

  • By Zach Schumm │ Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
(Photo by Todd Johnson, OSU Agriculture.)

First of its kind risk management tool offered for cow-calf producers

Madison Crawford, who received her bachelor’s and master’s in zoology and physiology from University of Wyoming, poses in front of a bee poster in Lusha Tronstad’s office. Crawford led a study that tested the hypothesis that wind turbine color attracts insects. She was lead author of a paper that was published recently in the journal Western North American Naturalist. (Photo by Lusha Tronstad.)

UW research points to bug benefits from changing color of wind turbines