In the mid-1990s agribusinesses beganadvertising26GM seeds that promised to reduce a farmer's use of toxic pesticides. Today most GM crops-mainly soybean, corn, cotton and canola-containgenes27enabling them to either resist insect pests or tolerate weed-killing28herbicides. The insect-resistant29v...
Interesting Fact:Buck moths do not have any form of working mouth and cannot feed in that form. 6.Southern Flannel Moth or Puss Caterpillar(Megalopyge opercularis) Often compared to a toupee, the puss caterpillar is not someone you want to mess with. ©IrinaK/Shutterstock.com Appearance:Th...
ABAMECTIN has registered globally to prevent various ornamental crops, horticultural crops and mites on cotton, and some insect pests. AbameCTIN can effectively control the cure of latent leaf flies, spots, potato beetles, cabbage moths, tomato tapeworms, tomato wood lice, citrus leaf flies,PHYLLOCN...
At the order level, the monarch belongs to butterflies and moths, calledLepidoptera,which rank high among the most intriguing and conspicuous insect orders in the Southwest. They have two pairs of membranous, scaled and often brightly colored wings. Typically they have large eyes, long antennae an...
a bottle of chemical pesticide and obliterate whatever it is that’s eating your plants, but that’s always a bad idea. Chemical pesticides may kill the target pest, but they’re also frequently toxic to birds, fish, and mammals-including you, your family, dogs and cats and other wildlife...
dogs – should be let to lie. We’re often quite unaware of the paradoxical nature of much of our perception and sense-making. The sorting out and sifting of all the possible double and contrary meanings happens mostly at an unconscious or habitual level – leaving us free to get on with...