In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, a listener on “team wasp” writes in with some interesting info on USDA wasps for pesticide-free pest control and we learn about some wasp versus beetle drama.
KA’U (HawaiiNewsNow) - Tiny wasps the size of dust particles could be the answer to saving Hawaii Coffee farms. And now UH researchers plan to set a swarm free on Hawaii Island. Tens of thousands of ...
On the last day of July, there was a different kind of drama at a baseball field in Rutland Town. A mother wasp flew low over the infield, weighed down with a beetle that she planned to feed to her ...
Maui coffee farmers are “cautiously optimistic” about the proposed use of a parasitoid wasp in Hawaii to help control the invasive coffee berry borer, a bug that has caused catastrophic impacts to ...
Officials are proposing the release of a parasitoid wasp from Africa to assist in the fight against the invasive coffee berry borer. The coffee berry borer (CBB) is the most destructive insect pest of ...
Before peonies bloom in spring their unopened flower buds produce a nectar that feeds a tiny wasp called a Spring Tiphia. These shiny, black, solitary wasps are about half an inch long and are ...
MONTPELIER — Parks commissioners want to hear more about “parasitic wasps” before green-lighting a bug-versus-bug battle in the heart of the Capital City. On a night when commissioners received ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Some tiny, parasitic wasps from China no larger than a sesame seed may help halt the destruction of Michigan's dwindling population of ash trees. The wasps lay eggs inside the ...
A small beetle is responsible for the death and decline of billions of ash trees in North America, and the race is on to stop it from causing further damage. The USDA is hoping to spread the word so ...