pest news

April 18, 2018

Unique protein is a vulnerability in the malaria parasite

The malaria parasite is highly dependent on a unique protein for infecting new mosquitoes. This protein could be a target for the development of new drugs. […]
April 16, 2018

Malaria: Mosquitoes reveal fatal attraction

Malaria causes the bodies of its human hosts to emit specific odors from the skin that make the hosts even more attractive to mosquitoes, which invites […]
April 16, 2018

A new hope: One of North America's rarest bees has its known range greatly expanded

The Macropis cuckoo bee is one of the rarest bees in North America, partly because of its specialized ecological associations. It is a nest parasite of […]
April 16, 2018

Predicting which trees are at greatest risk of beetle invasion

This study shows that the composition of forests is more important than other factors when predicting where the destructive pest will strike next. Predicting which trees […]